Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me back to the battlefield.- Puncture Wounds (2014)

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.

Nobody's coming to me with 60 million dollars to turn it into a 315 million dollar juggernaut even though I created the Huffington Post.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

I don't put a great deal of stock in art trophies.

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.

I'm feeling like Billy the Kidd, skinny B.I.G. You literally live like a guinea pig

If you want to hear Him say, 'Well done,' you need to do something well.