If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

I enjoy bathing, as many Europeans don't.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

What is most important is your Spirit. Why identify with anything else but your own spirit? You cannot get money out of it. No. The joy of Spirit is the reward of Spirit.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.