If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about.

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.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

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