When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

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.

You will only attract what you think of.

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I always felt people should live with animals.

OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.