I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.
Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
If you look at the world the same way when you’re 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women – but all that stuff stopped.
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.
I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.
I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.
True giving happens when we give from our heart.
Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan’s behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.
Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.
The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they’re crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life’s annihilation!
I’ll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.