I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

The greatest fighter I ever saw

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

There are a lot of pastors who have a vision and have not yet seen it become a reality.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves and I just don't believe in limiting myself.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read