I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.

Find a job from which you do not need a vacation.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.