"Harder you Try, Luckier you get"

"They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant."

"It's so beautiful where I am today that it makes me wonder where I am."

"Finally, we do become wise, but then it's too late"

"The dictionary is a perfect example of overalphabetization, with its harsh rules and every little word neatly in place. It almost makes me want to go on a diet of grapes and waste away to nothing."

"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth"

"In America, we’re really good at blowing things up but not so good in knowing where the pieces will land."

"Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled."

"Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend."

"Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport."

"A man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself."

"I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself."

"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."

"My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious."

"I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either."

"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading."

"Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled."

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."

"God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salvation."

"Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle."

"I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things."

"I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more."

"When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again."

"Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave."

"You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat."

"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."

"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading"

"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful."

"Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him."

"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."

"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should."

"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight."

"I'll go back and take what the people owe me."

"That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up."

"Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing."

"I'm a historian, and that freaks me out."

"I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say."

"I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues."

"I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe."

"I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have."

"People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people."

"The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character."

"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."

"Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment."

"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."

"I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down."

"I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down."

"The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight."

"Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her."

"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain."