He's too ugly to be the champ!

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

I'm going to show you how great I am!

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.