Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

I think when you sit alone with your brain too much, your own brain starts to rebel against you.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

Without the ice, the earth will fall

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field.