Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.