Boxer Quotes

“Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!”

“I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.”

“Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country.”

“It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.”

“Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.”

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

“I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.”

“Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

“No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.”

“No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.”

“All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking”

“Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions”

“You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job”

“In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away”

“I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.”

“I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.”

“I'm the fastest thing on two feet.”

“The one without dreams is the one without wings.”

“I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.”

“There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”

“I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.”

“I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.”

“I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.”

“Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.”

“When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.”