If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.