Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.

When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Who is here so vile that will not love his country?