He's no Bill Clinton!

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.

No one can set your level of worthiness except you.

An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.