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[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.
Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.
I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.
For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.
My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.
I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.
Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.
You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.
Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.
It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.
I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
In order for me to achieve... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.