The audience's expectations are ever-present.
The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.
You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.
I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.
Everyone knows everything eventually.
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to address major social issues. I don't think you give up theoretical rigor by writing in a way that addresses major social concerns and is at the same time accessible to wider informed general audiences.
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable. . . ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead. '
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.