I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.
It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.
Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.
The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.
We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
The show was bad, but I was great
I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.
Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job
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?
Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.
Stay away from the ropes
Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
To the people that have said I'm too small, I'm not fast enough, I don't have what it takes, I'm not strong enough. THANK YOU
The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?
If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.
People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
