Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly