I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.