I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.

Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.