For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.

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

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.