I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.

The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

In my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives.

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end.

You are nothing but your desires, dreams, thoughts, and beliefs

More are men's ends marked than their lives before.The setting sun, the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.