"Boxing is just to introduce me to..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.”

“It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.”

“The more we help others, the more we help ourselves”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

“Art to be art must soothe.”

“The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.”

“We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.”

“But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.”

“Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.”