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A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?

A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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.

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

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.

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.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.

Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200 years from now we all will be a beautiful cream color. He really believes it. One believe that gittin' some rifles and shootin' up the country is gonna solve it, another believes that education. One day we'll be the president. One believe that we gotta git into the white man's pockets and get all the money.

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

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.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Children make you want to start life over.

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos.

Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.

Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

Everything I got comes from Elijah Mohammed. He taught me who I was, he made me proud, he made me fearless, he made me love my own, I’ve turned down millions to keep from selling out my people, the beautiful name Mohammed Ali. And white people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of his in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.White people make me thinkin' that I'm smart, and as soon as I leave Elijah you can get me. But as long as I stay with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm safe.

Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.