Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.