"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

"I shook up the world! I shook up the world!"

"I've told you all, I'm a bad man. I'm the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and I'm the most recognized face on the planet."

"To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."

"Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means 'beloved of God,' and I insist that people use it when they speak to me and of me."