My toughest opponent has always been me.

I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.

My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.

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.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.