Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see, rumble young man, rumble!

Don't count the days, make the days count.

'Bill was so strong it was unbelievable. You couldn't shake him off the ball. It didn't matter where he was playing, though I suppose his best position was out…

They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play che…

I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.