We are stone enemies when the bell rings

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

I’m gonna show you how great I am.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.