The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Everything around me makes me miss you.

Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.