Everyone still wants to see [Floyd] Mayweather and [Manny] Pacquaio fight. When the talks start though, it always seem like it is all about Mayweather, and I think the people hate that.

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.

There is no quit in me.

Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Nothing has to be funny. Sometimes I just laugh to heal my soul.

I fight with you because i care. Now, when i stop fighting with you, thats when you should really start worrying.

You had to be tough in our neighborhood.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Okay, I'll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us '80s hair.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.