Muhammad Ali

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don’t mess with Muhammad Ali.

Muhammad Ali

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people more so than I do the money.

Muhammad Ali

I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

Muhammad Ali

I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic “one who is worthy of praise” and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

Muhammad Ali

I didn’t deny nothing I believe. I’m still the same everything.

Muhammad Ali

I didn’t even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin’ attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American. Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That’s not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin’ a livin’. To punish me.

Muhammad Ali

I didn’t run with a gang – I didn’t have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time – talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.

Muhammad Ali

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‘Why did you do that?’ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Muhammad Ali

I don’t call myself a political figure but I’m taken to be.

Muhammad Ali

I don’t consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley – I’m not nothing like that.

Muhammad Ali