You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

Courage is how bad you want it.

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.