Muhammad Ali

Champions are made from something deep inside — a desire, a dream, a vision.

I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count.

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.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

What keeps me going is goals.

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.

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.