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.

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 started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200 years from now we all will be a beautiful cream color. He really believes it. One believe that gittin' some rifles and shootin' up the country is gonna solve it, another believes that education. One day we'll be the president. One believe that we gotta git into the white man's pockets and get all the money.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me

Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.