I'm so mean I make medicine sick!

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.

Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.

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

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.