You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

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.

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.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

being stubborn is not a bad thing, it shows determination.

I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.