You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

Live optimistic life.

Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Focusing on negative situations is never helpful.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

You want to be recognized for being popular but you also want to be recognized for being great.