I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

Loving you was like going to war I never came back the same.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion

When gossip starts, be deaf.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.