Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

Courage is how bad you want it.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Unless you're prepared to make a mistake, you'll never do anything that hasn't been done before. You have to be prepared to be embarrassed.

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.