I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.

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

The one thing I don't understand is war.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.