I was born to be champion of the world

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody

There is only one legend. That's me

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk

I was born to be champion of the world