I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.

People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.