I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.