Shut up, I know what I'm doing!
They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
He's too ugly to be the champ!
You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.
I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.
Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.
Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.
Only the nose knows Where the nose goes When the door close.
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.
Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.
The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.
I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages
I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived
Who's gonna dare to be great?
We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.
There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.
