They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.
I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.
The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.
There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn’t just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.
Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!
In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away.
Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night.
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.
We can’t be brave without fear.
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn’t mean anything, because I didn’t have the right color skin.
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
How could they say that my religion, Islam was a ‘race hate’ religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer.
No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.