“It's time to reconnect to people you like and get rid of people you don't like....We need to live.”

“Boxing is the image of the Vietnam war with none of its guilt and only 25 percent of its dangers. It is like a sin. Too popular to be abolished.”

“Never Fight ugly people—they have nothing to Lose.”

“There are more pleasent things to do than beat up people. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

“Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”

“It doesn't matter how far you go as a boxer..It matters how far you go as a man!”

“The moment we stop fighting for the underdog is the moment we lose humanity.”