"Some gems for the greatest of them..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.”

“Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.”

“I want to be the first black man on the moon”

“Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.”

“I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.”

“The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.”

“And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.”

“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”

“People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.”