Quotes
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
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.
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
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.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.