When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.