You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

The best defense is a good offense.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Champions get up when they can't.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Don't worry honey, I'm too mean to die.

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

You have to believe that you deserve great things. You have to believe that you deserve to win each fight that you're in. You have to believe that you deserve to become a champion.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.