I ain't never liked violence.

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

My business is hurting people.

Hurting people is my business.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

He who knows the 'Why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'How'.

Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?

Forest have now lost six matches without winning.

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

I do all my interviews on the toilet.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.