I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier