"To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the USA, I won the gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'"

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized …"

"I'm the greatest thing that ever lived."

"I'm just a man. I'm not a God."

"I shook up the world! I shook up the world!"