All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

The best defense is a good offense.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

Champions get up when they can't.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Don't worry honey, I'm too mean to die.

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.