There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

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.

Seek to exceed your own expectations.

I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Never look back; something is always gaining on you.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.