I tried to stay away from King. You can’t do it. It’s like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he’ll get you.
Sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million.
I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it.
The mind is a really dangerous neighborhood to travel by oneself.
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don’t have any particular goal in sight.
People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.
I’ve lived places these guys can’t defecate in.
One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
Every time there’s a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.
I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
I’m a nut case, but that is what I believe.
Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn’t talk much. I never met him.
Fade into Bolivian, I guess.
If you can’t remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.