Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

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.

Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.

Don't walk behind me

Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

Well, I'm not a crook.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.