Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

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.

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.