"I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing"

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

"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it"

"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won"

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it"

"When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves"

"I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality"

"People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time"

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity"

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

"But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in"