"The fight is won or lost far..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.”

“People will know you’re serious when you produce.”

“Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!”

“If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.”

“From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,The hum of either army stilly sounds,That the fixed sentinels almost receiveThe secret whispers of each other's watch.Fire answers fire, and through their play flamesEach battle sees the other's umbered face.Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighsPiercing the night's dull ear; and from the tentsThe armorers accomplishing the knights,With busy hammers closing rivets up,Give dreadful note of preparation.”

“If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed”

“Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.”

“I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.”

“There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.”