There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

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.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

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.

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

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