If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Source: Goodreads
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Source: Goodreads
Now Clay swings with a right, what a beautiful swing/And the punch raises the Bear clear out of the ring/ Liston is still rising, and the ref wears a frown/For he can't start counting `til Sonny comes down/Now Liston disappears from view.
Source: CSN Philly
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Source: Parade
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
Source: Parade
"I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest
Source: Parade
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Source: Goodreads
"Joe's gonna come out smokin'/ But I ain't gonna be jokin'. /This might shock and amaze ya /But I'm going to destroy Joe Frazier.
Source: CSN Philly
Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned?/Wait `til I whup George Foreman's behind./Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee./His hand can't hit what his eyes can't see.
"Now you see me, now you don't.
George thinks he will, but I know he won't.
I done wrassled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale.
Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick.
I'm so mean, I make medicine sick."
Source: CSN Philly
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Source: Parade
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
Source: Goodreads
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Source: Goodreads