I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.