“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.

What difference does the uniform make? You don’t hit with it.

The game is supposed to be fun. If you had a bad day, don’t worry. You can’t expect to get a hit every game.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.

I don’t understand referees. It appears like some players can’t even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.