“Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.”

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.

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.

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.

I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.

Teach boys that manhood is not determined by how often they hold back their tears.

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.