When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

Courage is how bad you want it.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

Lines don’t make beautiful women less beautiful

Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11)

I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

I'm just a restless soul musically.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.