Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.

I respect that you want to protect your niece. You know, I didn't want my daughter to become a boxer. Neither did Mohammad. But Joe Frazier, on the other hand, he had his baby girl boxing in the crib.

We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.

I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.