I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

People say that I’m a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous – a no-nonsense guy.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

How I love David Bowie.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.