Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?
We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.