Don't count the days. Make the days count.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

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 lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself

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

I'm not the greatest I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky my name, not yours my religion, not yours my goals, my own get used to me