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

- Joe Louis

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…

- Joe Louis

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…

- Joe Louis

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

- Joe Louis

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…

- Joe Louis

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

- Joe Louis

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

- Joe Louis

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

- Joe Louis

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

- Joe Louis