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 didn't deny nothing I believe. I'm still the same everything.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Some gems for the greatest of them all

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.