And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner.

Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special.

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

I wanted to be a plumber.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

I wouldn’t be without my regular schedule of chiropractic adjustments because of my very strenuous schedule.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives are all wrong. You miss so much of the transitory beauty of life.

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.