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.”

“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

“I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.”

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.”

“If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.”

“My principles are more important than the money or my title.”

“I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.”

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

“I shook up the world, I shook up the world.”

“White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.”

“I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!”

“Don't feel sorry for me.”

“I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.”

“My toughest fight was with my first wife.”

“It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.”

“When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.”