I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

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 say it again, and I said it before. Archie Moore will fall in round four.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. [citation needed]

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.