I'd like to live to a hundred.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.