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.

Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

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