We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!