Quotes on Cassius

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.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

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

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

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.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

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.

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?