I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves.

I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.