“I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.”

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

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

What counts in the ring is what you can do after you’re exhausted. The same is true of life.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

It’s natural that anyone is compared to their father.