The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

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

I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.