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.

Courage is how bad you want it.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

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

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."

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.

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.