Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.

I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.

Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.