Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.

The more we help others, the more we help ourselves

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?