Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

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 saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.