Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.

I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.

Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.