Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish