The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

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

He's too ugly to be the champ!

I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'

I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent

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.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.