I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.