Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

How would you like to find out how good my right is?

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barely any separation between who we are and who they are.

It means that I love you and you love me until forever, Mama. Just like Jesus. Right, Mama?” “Yes, sweetheart. Until forever I will love you. Always remember that, Ethan—until forever.

I always like to tell a story.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as different regimes come and go and interests change.

I love going shopping.