"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."

"I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks

will accomplish nothing in life.”

“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.”

"What you're thinking is you're becoming."

“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 the skill, and

the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated

can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with

the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit.

Suffer now and live the rest of your life

as a champion.'”

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make

something out of you.”

"I shook up the world. Me! Whee!"

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

"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car

accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die,

some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will

happen to you."

"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die

every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on.

You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."

"Don't count the days; make the days count."

“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.”

And perhaps most importantly of all:

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your

room here on earth."

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