If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.