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.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

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.

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

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.