The streets was basically my parents.

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.

I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read

You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

Practice is practice, chicken is chicken.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.