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I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.
Muhammad Ali -
Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.
Muhammad Ali
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Muhammad Ali -
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali -
If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.
Muhammad Ali -
When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
Muhammad Ali -
I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent.
Muhammad Ali -
It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
Muhammad Ali
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I’m gonna show you how great I am.
Muhammad Ali -
There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.
Muhammad Ali -
Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.
Muhammad Ali -
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
Muhammad Ali -
I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
Muhammad Ali -
Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
Muhammad Ali
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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.
Muhammad Ali -
It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
Muhammad Ali -
I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.
Muhammad Ali -
Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
Muhammad Ali -
Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
Muhammad Ali -
My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.
Muhammad Ali
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I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.
Muhammad Ali -
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
Muhammad Ali -
I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
Muhammad Ali -
Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
Muhammad Ali