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.

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.

The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.