Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

Sports is human life in microcosm.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Wait for me.” The words come out choked and pained. “I need you to wait for me.

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.