Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.