I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

In my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives.

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.

Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.

I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.

Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.