I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

Success is not a stop sign.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.