To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

My business is hurting people.

I ain't never liked violence.

Hurting people is my business.

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?