Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

PR is performance recognition

A joke is necessary at this time.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.

To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.