“Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.”

This white woman came up to me, and I’m thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I’m like, “Who am I? Where’s my heritage?

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.

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

Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.

There’s nothing like confidence.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.

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

No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it’s pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn’t doing it and that gives me a little edge.

It’s unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you’ve got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody 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.

I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Let God fight your battles. Let God be your vindicator.

Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.