My business is hurting people.

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

I ain't never liked violence.

Hurting people is my business.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

Time is the greatest wealth in the world and only through conversion of time can money be made.

I love poetry, but I often wonder how poetry feels about me.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do.