The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

When we love - we grow

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.