“Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.”

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.

If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn’t do anything unless you do it right.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I want to keep fighting because it’s the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don’t fight, I’ll eat this planet.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you’ve got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

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

Growing up poor, I didn’t even have a lunch to take to school.

I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I’d get locked in a grocery store.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

A person does not struggle except for what he loves and only loves what is free of appreciation and respect.

He didn’t appreciate my light until he knew how dark it can get after the sun has set.

The art to breathe and smile despite the pressure of anxiety, takes courage and power, keep appreciating yourself.

He’s fully committed to appreciating his body with all its flaws and imperfections, more and more every day.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

We’re so busy trying to move on and living our lives, that we sometimes forget to appreciate how far we’ve come, how well our wounds healed, and that somewhere along the journey, we’ve learned to let go.

Did you ever take a deep breath and appreciated the people, things and memories that stayed in your life

Big or small, I appreciate everything that’s done for me.