I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.