I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.