"I was always curious. I always wondered..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“The sun is always shining someplace.”

“We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.”

“Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.”

“Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.”

“The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.”

“Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.”

“I did not disregard my culture, if I did, it was the white American culture, and I accepted my true culture, when I accepted Mohammed Ali, because this is a black name, Islam is the black man's religion, and so I would like to say, that I would like to clarify that point that I reclaimed my real culture, and that's being a black man and wearing a black name with a black body, and not a white name, so I would never say that I didn't disown my culture.”

“The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.”

“Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people”