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

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.

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.

I loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'

we want it visible to showwhen even the most visible joy will reveal itselfonly when we have transformed it within.there’s nowhere, my love, the world can existexpect within.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.

When you're in the zone of your purpose with passion...time stands still.

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

Being chosen doesn't come out of a state of fullness, it comes out of a state of emptiness.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.

You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.