Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

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.

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

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

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

I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."