Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.
To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.
When I was little, I didn’t really travel – from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner’s eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there’s the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.
The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency.
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
Everybody is blessed with a certain talent. You have to know what your talent is, maximize it, and push it to the limit.
Just live every day like it’s your last day and be the best person that you can be.
Ain’t no boundaries, ain’t no limits.
I’m a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you’ll get where you want to go to.
As long as you know you gave whatever you did 100% you’re considered a winner in my book.
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
Sometimes, people say certain things about me that are negative, but that’s no problem. I try to take their negative and turn it to a positive. That’s why I like to surround myself with positive people.
I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all – short like that.
You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: ‘I’m not going to smoke and I’m not going to drink.’ And I said I’m not going to just say that when I’m a kid. I’m going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me – that perfectionist pressure. And that can work in two ways: It can make you a perfectionist yourself, or it can eventually break you in the long run.
If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don’t call my phone unless you’ve got $100 million.
I fight myself. I don’t fight to break Ali’s record or Sugar Ray Robinson’s record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I’m rated. I didn’t fight in Ali’s era. This is my era.
Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.