They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.