I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

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

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

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

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.

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

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.