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

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.

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.

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

This life is full of signs, many of which find their way to you exactly when you need them most.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.

My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.