It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Don't count the days, make the days count.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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