Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.