Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

The future never happens

Live a life that fits your specific circumstances, not one that fits someone else’s expectations

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

That was when it became abundantly clear to me that simply eating in a way that avoided hurting others was never going to be enough if my eating habits were still hurting me.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.