Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates.
I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.
For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum