I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.

There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

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

The sun is always shining someplace.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.