If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they’re crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life’s annihilation!
I’ll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.
Don’t ever squeeze a fighter’s hand, man. You’re doing good just to lay your eyes on me.
If you love God, tear out your heart’s love of the world.
Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn’t mean it to be that way.
Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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.
Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can’t protect your women, you can’t protect your nation.
Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all...
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.
I don’t look like no kiwi bird.
I’m going to, not I’m gonna. Talk intelligent.
No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!
Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight.
I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!