I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.

I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.