Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

It hurt to even bump into him.

Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all.

Your Heart, Your Mind, Your Creator! Your Soul Will Follow.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.