It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.

There is no quit in me.

Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.