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

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.

I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'