Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail.

I shook up the world.