Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.