I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.

I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'

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.

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

I'd like to live to a hundred.