"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."

"I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me."

"That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke."

"I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me."

"I'm just happy I'm not a phony."

"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society."

"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."

"Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people."

"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."

"You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative."

"I'm going to gut you like a fish."

"I love to hit people. I love to."

"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."

"I just want to conquer people and their souls."

"I think I'll take a bath in his blood."

"I've lived places these guys can't defecate in."

"I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off."

"Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters."

"I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day."

"When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff."

"If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?"

"When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it."

"I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it."

"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."

"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them."

"I just want to be humble at all times."

"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."

"When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him."

"Everybody's got plans... until they get hit."

"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."

"I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one."

"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. A genius'is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies toward solving the problems at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking can often be difficult, there seems to be no limit to which most people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it...

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident.... Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work

Inspiration can often be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of deep sleep per night.