"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain."

"The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight."

"I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it."

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

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

"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."

"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."

"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."

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

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

"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."

"I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either."

"That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke."

"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 just want to conquer people and their souls."

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

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

"I love to hit people. I love to."

"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society."

"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."

"I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself."

"Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters."

"When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him."

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

"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."

"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 don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more."

"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."

"I think I'll take a bath in his blood."

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."

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

"I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day."

"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them."

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

"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."

"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."

"If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?"

"I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future."

"I'm going to gut you like a fish."

"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."

"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."

"Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle."

"You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative."

"I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one."

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

"I just want to be humble at all times."

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

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

"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."

"When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff."