Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

I want to be great, something special.

It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.

I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.