The fact is, I'm really happy that Kenny Monday's around. You've got to have people who are worth beating. He's worth beating.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking
For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.
My favorite memory is, as a freshman, going to Carolina and beating them. Going over there and winning on their court. I think that was the only time I did win on their court.
Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in front of all those fans in my home town.
One reason why I started fighting was because of my family, and with that, you gotta pay the bills, but I enjoy beating people up in the first place, you know, so it plays hand in hand. Beating up, and getting money!
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
Any award the NBA gives you, whether it's on the court or off the court, it's definitely an honor.
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.
I'm fighting and beating great fighters.
Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.