Quotes from Joe Louis

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

I don't like money actually but it quiets my nerves.

He can run, but he can't hide.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

He can run, but he can't hide.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves.

Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.

If you cheat on your road work in the dark of the morning, you will be found out in the big fight under the bright lights.

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them." On his 1942 enlistment in what a critic called "a white man's army,

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.