If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

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.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.