One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy
I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation. . . . It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.