“There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. It’s an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it’s not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.”

A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.

I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.’

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

You have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle.

Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That’s important.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.

People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.

There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: ‘A truck!’

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

I’m for the death penalty, I’m pro-abortion, I’m pro-assisted suicide, I’m pro-regular suicide. Anything that’ll get the traffic moving.

When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn’t get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.