I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.

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.

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.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.

Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

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

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