How would you like to find out how good my right is?

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

Have you ever paused to be Grateful? For eyes to see, nose to smell, ears to hear, tongue to taste, hands to feel, head to think and heart to love?

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

What I've said to [my team] is, "Look, we ran our leg of the race and we did a darn good job."

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.