Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

What's the point of doing anything if nobody's watching?

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

I think we are as screwed as a culture as we are saved as a culture.

Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

Whatever happens, believe that the journey is worth taking, and then you will reach its end.