The one thing I don't understand is war.

Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.

Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.

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?"

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.