I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good.

You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.