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

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

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.

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

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

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.

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