“I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.”

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

Tolerance and understanding won’t ‘trickle down’ in our society any more than wealth does.

Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

How many push ups do you do? I don’t know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

The sun is always shining someplace.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

There comes a time in every person’s life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

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.

I’m young; I’m handsome; I’m fast. I can’t possibly be beat.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

It’s hard to beat a guy when he’s got his mind made up that he’s going to win.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause. In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about.

In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.