This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

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

I outwit them, and then I outhit them

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.