Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a blood….

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville..

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it any….

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love….

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows..

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get..

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the soc….

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is i….

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood..

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on..

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it..

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous..

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them..

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people..

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts..