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

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

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.