You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

My business is hurting people.

I ain't never liked violence.

Hurting people is my business.

In truth, it was also by design: as much as I loved my mother, she wasn't often the person I sought for comfort in hard times. She disapproved tacitly of crying.

I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Life without friendship is like the sky without sun.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.