If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You’ll probably be in jail, you’ll be in trouble. But, it’s all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. It’s an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it’s not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it’s over, it’s over, and that’s it.
If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don’t know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don’t know how hard Mike Tyson’s punch is. I don’t know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.
There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.
My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
I don’t want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I’d rather be forgotten by everybody else.
Unfortunately, sometimes you can’t have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don’t have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
Guess I’m going to fade into Bolivian.
It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it’s hard to say it defined my career.
I just want to conquer people and their souls.
He was crying in there, making woman gestures.
I’m not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I’m not a Democrat, either. It’s just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.
Five heads are definitely better than one when they’re thinking in the same perspective. I think that you really need to have people that you trust. And for me, trust comes from that synchronizing, that same-mindedness.
When you’re a great finisher, you’ll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.