"I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone. Words of ambition and courage that transcend the sport."

"I was the Elvis of boxing."

"I want to tell people not to take my word for it. Find out for yourselves."

"All I can do is fight for truth and justice."

"Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up."

"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing."

"We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last."

"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

"Your heart is the size of an ocean; go find yourself in its hidden depths."

"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."

"When I die I shall soar with the angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine."

"The intelligent want self-control; children want candy."

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you."