Motivation Quote by Larry Holmes

Holmes is doing something boxers rarely get credit for: demystifying greatness. In a sport that sells myth-making - the chosen one, the born killer, the natural champion - he insists on being "average", then quietly turns that label into a weapon. The first move is disarming. "I always felt good about myself" reads like plain confidence, but it also rejects the usual trauma-to-triumph script audiences expect from fighters. No tortured origin story required. Self-regard is presented as a baseline, not a prize.

Then comes the pivot: average, but not limited. Holmes frames ability as a social comparison ("anything anyone else could") rather than a magical gift. That's a locker-room philosophy with populist bite: talent is less important than permission. The subtext is aimed at the gatekeepers who decide who gets to dream - trainers, promoters, critics, even fans who confuse charisma with destiny. By calling himself average, he refuses the pedestal that can be yanked away; by insisting average people can do extraordinary things, he spreads the leverage.

The last line - "If an average person makes up their mind" - carries the hard, almost blunt moral of gym culture: decisions matter, repetition matters, showing up matters. Holmes came up in an era when heavyweight boxing was a brutal meritocracy on paper and a political machine in practice. His point lands as both motivation and quiet indictment: the difference between "average" and "champion" is often not birthright, but a sustained, stubborn refusal to accept the role assigned to you.