I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!

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

I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag