“They'll take everything, even your tears.”

“I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.”

“I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.”

“I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'”

“I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.”

“My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.”

“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

“In the ring, I never really knew fear.”

“I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.”

“Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.”

“Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can ...”

“Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. 'Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?' he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.'Maybe it believes you can handle i...”

“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.”

“When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves.”

“If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?”