Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn’t find a mouthpiece big enough.
I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.
I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn’t have said. Called him names I shouldn’t have called him. I apologise for that. I’m sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.
When you come to the fight Don’t block the halls and don’t block the door, for y’all may go home after round four.
Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
He’s too ugly to be the champ!
I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don’t mess with Muhammad Ali.
Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
I’ve got it! I’ve got it! It’ll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I’ll show up again.
The show was bad, but I was great.
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.
There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That’s a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.
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 so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.
Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I’m still pretty.
There’s nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.
Some gems for the greatest of them all.
I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.
That computer was made in Alabama.
Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.