The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

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.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.