Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

Shut up, I know what I'm doing!

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.