The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me