“I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.”

“My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out.”

“My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.”

“I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!”

“My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.”

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

“Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?”

“The gates of monarchsAre arched so high that giants may jet throughAnd keep their impious turbans on withoutGood morrow to the sun.”