Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I could be boxing against Hulk Hogan or Mickey Mouse. It just feels great to be boxing again, legally.

Boxing is such a great sport and so much like making jazz music, ... There is the footwork, the jab, the constant setting up and reacting to your opponent.

Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.

Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.