I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?'

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

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 think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.