If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

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.

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."

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

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.

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

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