To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.

I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.

Vitali Klitschko doesn't get enough credit for how intelligent he fights, because he knows when to throw at the target and when to throw through the target.

Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / God

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

Mexican people are very warm and friendly. I was able to adjust and adapt the new environment. They are very kind and helpful.