Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don't hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe in yourself. A guy can feel it if you don't believe in yourself. Set your mind to make yourself do it.

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.