The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

The bombs were coming-and so was I.

You can do it. That thing you just thought of, you can do it.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Shaking the past, making my break, taking control, that's what it takes.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.