I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.
Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
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.
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
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'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?
