Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?

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.

Your heart is too magnificent for a small hope

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

The world is yours. Occupy it sacred space.

Love is the thread with which we connect to the world.

When the Dream Giver asked me to give my Dream to him, I didn't think I could. But I wanted the Dream Giver more than my Dream, so I did.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands but he cannot lift up his face.

I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying.

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.