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

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

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

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 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.

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.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.