When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

Imagination is a confident hope.

If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

The key to all motivation is desire, and the master key to creating desire is responsiveness to the needs, desires, and interests of the people you would lead.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

Coming back into television, I was very, very wary about committing to anything that could potentially take a long time. I don't mind movies, but I was nervous of television.

Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.