I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

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.