When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends.

I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates.

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.