When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

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

I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.