No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

I'm most proud of my family.

The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.