It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
The white man is destroying the world.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.