It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

You are facing obstacles because there are mountains you have not climbed, yet

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.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.

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.