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

A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.