If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.