I don't like money very much, but it calms 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.

He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace

If you don't ever get out of your comfort zone you will never make it to the end zone!.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

One can't live on love alone; and I am so stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.