Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.
You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.
If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
Courage is how bad you want it.
Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.
If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.
There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.
I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.
A sound body keeps a sound mind.
Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.
I loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'
I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."
Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.
I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.
I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.
You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black
His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.
