Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.