"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing"

"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming"

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool"

"Swimming isn't everything, winning is"

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing"

"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today"

"Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world"

"The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'"

"Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball"

"New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something"

"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming"