Muhammad Ali

You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again

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

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

Superman don't need no seat belt.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.

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 wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

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'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.

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 was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.