The whole damned country was depending on me.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

It hurt to even bump into him.

you cannot wait for the change. You have to be the change".

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

It's been TV and a lot of independent films. I'm so happy and blessed to have all these opportunities. But I'm also working on somebody else's project.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!