I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.
There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.
I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.
I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.
You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.
This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took
The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!
Boxing is not for killing each other.
A champion shows who he is by what he does.
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.
It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps
I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
