Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

Let people live their lives, as long as they don't hurt anybody. As long as they don't destroy their own lives.

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

The seventies and eighties are when the division was really good. The fights were very enjoyable and everyone knew when the next fight was. Nowadays, you don't even know who won a fight three days after it happens. We need heavyweights, the people want heavyweights.

The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it.