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.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

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

Courage is how bad you want it.

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

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.

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.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.