I wouldnt change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.

If we've learned anything, it's that the combination of yellow smiley faces and blue polyester vests are irresistible to the inbred.