"I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing races. I don't believe in white people marrying black people."

"To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."

"I'm a professional showman. I'm not only a boxer, I'm a magician."

"Why should I go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?"

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."