I do not like Andre Ward. I want to destroy this guy as a boxer, as a champion. For me he is not a champion, he's a fake champion.

People ask if I had hope of becoming a champion. I had hope. Hope was the only thing I had. Hope pushed me.

Keep strong if possible in any case keep cool.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.

You can't write drunk.

I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Gerard Butler is like a big kid, he's so nice.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.