You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.