I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me

Friendship is the grease of life.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

If I can do it, little old me, you can do it. Trust and believe.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.