I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.

People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.

I shook up the world.

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.