I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200 years from now we all will be a beautiful cream color. He really believes it. One believe that gittin' some rifles and shootin' up the country is gonna solve it, another believes that education. One day we'll be the president. One believe that we gotta git into the white man's pockets and get all the money.

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.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.