If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose