The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

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

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

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.