"I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down."

"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."

"Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment."

"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."

"The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character."

"People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people."

"I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have."

"I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe."

"I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues."

"I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say."

"I'm a historian, and that freaks me out."

"Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing."

"That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up."

"I'll go back and take what the people owe me."

"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight."

"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should."

"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."

"Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him."

"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful."

"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading"

"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."

"You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat."

"Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave."

"When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again."