Boxing is just show business with blood.
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
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.
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Don't count the days, make the days count.
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
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.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
The will must be stronger than the skill.
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