“I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.”

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

How many push ups do you do? I don’t know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

The sun is always shining someplace.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

There comes a time in every person’s life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.

What counts in the ring is what you can do after you’re exhausted. The same is true of life.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

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

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

In boxing, you never know who you’re going to face in the ring.

I just want to make money, get on with my life, and be involved in good fights. If I’m not going to be involved in good fights, then what’s the point being a boxer?

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I’m not treating my opponent like my enemy. We’re doing a job to entertain people.

Training’s training; boxing’s boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.

For me, boxing isn’t about hurting each other. Boxing is entertainment and making people happy.