Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

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.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

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.

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

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

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.