I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.

People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.

If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on.

Don King ain't a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don't hold any hard feelings toward him.

Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.