Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

I shook up the world.

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.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.