Muhammad Ali — "I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived, 'cause there ain't no bla…"

"I'm a good man, I'm a smart man, I'm a fast man, I'm a bad man."

"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."

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

"Joe Frazier is an Uncle Tom. He's a white man in a black skin."

"To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the USA, I won the gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'"