No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me