I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

I sort of figured we'd be dating. It makes things like sharing a room a little easier.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.