I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

Courage is how bad you want it.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

The eleventh gift is Love. It will grow each time you give it away.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

The only magic in our lives as runners is the magic of consistency. Not every run will make you feel great.

When something's hard, smiling helps us in the end, and it becomes fun.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

There is no place where God is not.

In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor.

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.