Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

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?"

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.

I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.