I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard.

I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons.

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.

I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive.

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.