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In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

I’m not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life