Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

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'.

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.

Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.