Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

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 was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.