Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.
George Foreman can knock down an oak tree. . . but oak trees don't move.
Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.
Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.
There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively.
It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.