Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

I'm the fastest thing on two feet.

When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.