A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
America is the greatest country in the world.
At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
At home I am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, i've found, don't go very far.
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Children make you want to start life over.
Don't feel sorry for me.
Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the english language delivered at a harvard graduation.)
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
