I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's som….

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing..

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die..

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world..

Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime..

He can run, but he can't hide..

Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better..

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a goo….

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool ha….

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them..

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling..

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any..

Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good..

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody..

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

It hurt to even bump into him..

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves..

I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves..

The whole damned country was depending on me..

I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title..