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

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

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

You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.

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