I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven