I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.

Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

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