I don't like money actually but it quiets my nerves.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

It hurt to even bump into him.

But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

I'm a good Catholic boy.