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

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.

I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.

You can’t even stay dead like a reasonable person!” he yelled, overjoyed at the sight of his brother. “What, you didn’t miss me?

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

Anything for gold and experience.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

I'm fast, why? Because I eat vegetables.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

I could have melted ice, my smile was so bright.

Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.