Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.