Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.