I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

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.

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.