It's Not Bragging If You Can Back

Emmett Till And I Were About The Same Age. A Week After He Was Murdered... I Stood On A Corner With A Gang Of Boys, Looking At Pictures Of Him In The Black Newspapers And Magazines. In One, He Was Laughing And Happy. In The Other, His Head Was Swollen And Bashed In, His Eyes Bulging Out Of Their Sockets, And His Mouth Twisted And Broken... I Couldn't Get Emmett Till Out Of My Mind, Until One Evening I Thought Of A Way To Get Back At White People For His Death.

I Got Nothing Against No Viet Cong. No Vietnamese Ever Called Me A >.

Maybe I Was Great In The Ring, But Outside Of Boxing, I'm Just A Brother Like Other People. I Want To Live A Good Life, Serve God, Help Everybody I Can. And One More Thing. I'm Still Gonna Find Out Who Stole My Bike When I Was 12 Years Old In Louisville And I'm Gonna Whup Him. That Was A Good Bike.

There Are More Pleasant Things To Do Than Beat Up People.

You Can't Keep Your Mind On Fighting When You're Thinking About A Woman. You Can't Keep Your Concentration. You Feel Like Sleeping All The Time.