I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves

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

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

We can't be brave without fear.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.