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.

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.

When my title was taken away boxing died.