I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

Even the sweetest girl needs a hard center, or she's not gonna make it out there!!" - Sakura

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.