When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.