I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.

I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.

I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me

Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.