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Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
I'm not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don't even know where I get them.
I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
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.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.
Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?
Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.
I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.
If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.
There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.
We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.
I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.
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.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.
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.
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.
Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.
We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.
You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
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 just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.
I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.
Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.
I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me
I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.