Muhammad Ali

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing’s a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

Muhammad Ali

I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I’d rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.

Muhammad Ali

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn’t the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn’t want to be seriously hurt, and I didn’t want to do that to anybody else either.

Muhammad Ali

I love my people and I don’t hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.

Muhammad Ali

I need to get everything straight. I’m not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

Muhammad Ali

I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I’m protected.

Muhammad Ali

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.

Muhammad Ali

I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn’t have said. Called him names I shouldn’t have called him. I apologise for that. I’m sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.

Muhammad Ali

I said to myself, ‘the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe – every man in the whole world’. It sounds big, didn’t it? So I kept working until I did it.

Muhammad Ali

I should be a postage stamp, that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.

Muhammad Ali