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

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.