Joe Louis Video

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

There have been countless women in my life. They have participated in my triumphs and suffered with me in my moments of dissapointment. They have inspired me to attainment and they have balked me; they have caused me joy and they have heaped misery upon me; they have been faithful to the utmost and they have been faithless; they have praised and loved me and they have hated and denounced me. Always, a woman has swayed me — sometimes many have demanded my attention at the same moment.

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.

Road rage begins in kindergarten.

Hurting people is my business.

Since no welterweight or middleweight will fight me I am compelled to go to the next class. Will any heavyweights fight me?

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.