I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.