I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I’m his puppet and he is my invisible master, holding my strings from miles away.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

Vision with action makes a powerful reality.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.