I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

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

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

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.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.