I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.
I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.
Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'
I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
