Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

Courage is how bad you want it.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

The world's pretty trippy. I just like to travel around and see what's out there.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

The wild night is calling.

I think golfers get over-concerned about results. Enjoy the process: enjoy the opportunity to play.