I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

The more we help others, the more we help ourselves

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.