champions are made from something they have deep inside (on the death of the very deep Muhammad Ali, 3 June 2016))

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

- Muhammad Ali

I done something new for this fight. I wrestled with an alligator. I tussled with a whale. I handcuffed lightning, I thrown thunder in jail. Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. 

Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

- Muhammad Ali

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

- Muhammad Ali

Obama said Ali was ‘a man who fought for what was right. A man who fought for us’



I was the onliest boxer in history people asked questions like a senator.

- Muhammad Ali