I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

Lord who art always the same give that I know myself give that I know Thee.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.

The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.