"Clay can keep his pretty face.... I don't want it, I'm just going to rip his kidneys out" JOE FRAZIER

"What I don't understand is why they make fighters shake hands before they fight, How can you shake hands with a guy you're about to destroy" ROCKY MARCIANO

"I zigged when I should have zagged" JACK DEMPSEY

"He can run, but he can't hide" JOE LOUIS

"I could have knocked him out in the third round because every time I hit him he was making sounds like a woman screaming. I wanted to knock him out slowly so he could remember the stuff he said before the fight. I wanted to hit him as many times as i could before he fell over. When he did go down, I was hoping he'd get up so I could hit him more" MIKE TYSON

"No running, no hiding from no one. You stand there and fight till the blood run in your shoes. But don't you run" BEAU JACK

"I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because I had a good life before and I'm having a good life now. It would be bad if I had a disease that was contagious, then I couldn't play with children and hug people all over the world. But my problem with speaking bothers other people more than in bothers me. It doesn't stop me from doing what I want to do, or being what I want to be. Sometimes, I think that too many people had put me on a pedestal before, and made me into an idol - and that's against Islam, there are no idols in Islam. So maybe this problem I have is God's way of reminding me, and everyone else, about what's important. I accept it as God's will, and I know that God never gives anyone a burden that's too heavy to carry" MUHAMMAD ALI

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth" MUHAMMAD ALI