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.

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.

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.

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I find that stability is good for my creativity.

The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

If I didnt promote Joker, then who promoted

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.