Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.

If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

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.