I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.