Quotes on Famous Boxer

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

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.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

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