I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

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

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier