“It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.”

“ believe in who you are”

“Football players throw a 3 pound ball in the air, but cheerleaders throw a 100 pound girl in the air and catch her.”

“Open Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose!”

“I do have a head, as I am at present manifest in the physical world, and indeed you demonstrate that my head possesses within it far more productive material than does yours.That was a hell of a sentence, Mr. Clean. You might need to diagram that motherfucker for me.”

“Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.”

“Through this flesh, which is us, we are you, and you are us!”