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

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

When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and at the same time be exciting. That's what professional boxing is about. You've got to be clever, you've got to be smart, and not get hit, and when you're able to do this, you're a fighter.

The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

People who are born round don't die square.

Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed him I'd say he's a liar or there's something wrong with him. I'd send him to a doctor to find out what the hell's the matter with him, because this is not a normal reaction. The fighter that's gone into the ring and hasn't experienced fear is either a liar or a psychopath.

Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.