Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator.

I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.