No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

There is nothing to be lost by experimenting with the sickened human mind and body.

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it, change the way you you think about it.

~ "Harmony, and not peace, is the key element that can bring all nations of the world together. In science we cannot prove peace, but we can prove what harmony is!

Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set.

Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation.