If you have an advantage, you have to take advantage of it.

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

Probably not even a household name in his own house.

Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.