I called my training camp Fighter’s Heaven.
The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!
You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.
We are stone enemies when the bell rings.
I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I’d dodge every one. That’s how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.
I don’t know what truculent means, but if it’s good, it’s me.
Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I’m not fighting one man. I’m fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of ’em, here is one man they couldn’t defeat, couldn’t conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people.
I don’t count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.
Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways, forms, and times.
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
My trainer don’t tell me nothing between rounds. I don’t allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It’s too late for advice.
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose.
I’m not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don’t even know where I get them.
If you are not the best, then pretend you are.
I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.
I don’t always know what I’m talking about, but I know I’m right.
I’m gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain’t going to die easy.