I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

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

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

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?"

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking