I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box.

The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.

There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about.

I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.