I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.

I was born to be champion of the world

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters

I'm not God, but I am something similar.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

There is only one legend. That's me

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.

We boldly conquer any fear with faith.

Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange, ’ you have denied America with that word.

Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.