If you don’t dream, you might as well be dead.
I hit Ali with everything and he said ‘is that all you got’ and I said ‘yeah, that’s pretty much it.’
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didnt have any fear. I thought, This is easy. This is what Ive been waiting for. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
I didn’t come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free.
As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I’d get locked in a grocery store.
Excellence isn’t achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You’ve got to have both.
If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn’t do anything unless you do it right.
We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.
Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.
One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.
If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.
Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you’ll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live.
As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.
Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.
All I’ve ever tried to tell anyone is that I’m not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I’ve ever been was an American.