It's not bragging if you can back it up.

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 am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.

When my title was taken away boxing died.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.