Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

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.

You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

Country music has the great stories.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.