Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

I can contribute, be valuable and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'