Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

Don't stop trying newer challenges. What you fear you must face!

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.