Courage is how bad you want it.

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.

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

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

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

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

I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn't do their jobs.