Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

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 have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.