I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

Courage is how bad you want it.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

Your inner natural flow of life connects you with the natural flow of life that takes place in the universe.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Your customers get better when you do.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things