America don’t have no future! America’s going to be destroyed! Allah’s going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes- there’s gonna be all kinds of trouble. America’s going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it’s done to black people.
If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.
No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.
The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
I’m the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.
There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn’t been born yet.
Since I won’t let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I’m full of hate. But they don’t really hurt me none, ’cause I’m doing good and having fun.
I called my training camp Fighter’s Heaven.
The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!
You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.
We are stone enemies when the bell rings.