“If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don’t hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe in yourself. A guy can feel it if you don’t believe in yourself. Set your mind to make yourself do it.”

People who are born round don’t die square.

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

A fighter has to know fear.

The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.

Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you.

Losers are winners who quit,…even if you lose…you still win…if you don’t quit.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.

You got to be smart you got to be clever and not get hit and when your able to do this your a fighter.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn’t see.

Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

I’d rather give one hit song than a flop film.

I’ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

The outer part of me so cold like an armor impenetrable. The words you throw at me ricochet and hit you in the heart.

There’s more to boxing than hitting. There’s not getting hit, for instance.

Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

I’m going to fail to hit the mark I’ve put up before me because it’s not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I’ve got to get over myself already because that’s never going to happen. I ain’t ever going to be God.