I appreciate all my fans. I appreciate anybody who has asked me for an autograph, or has complimented me as a fighter. When I go to the Hall of Fame events, I'm always well received and respected.

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic.

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.

The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision.

I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter.

So many things we do as young people are things we have to live with as older people.

There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

I had a lot of friends who were boys. I played ball with them, but we didn't date. They didn't ask me that much because I wasn't cute enough or because I didn't drink or party.