I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.