It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Quoted in "Ali's Quotes" at BBC Sport : Boxing - 2007.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.
Quoted in "Ali's Quotes" at BBC Sport : Boxing - 2007.
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
Quoted in "Ali's Quotes" at BBC Sport : Boxing - 2007.
I'm retiring because there are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Quoted in Secrets of Power Persuasion for Salespeople - 2003, by Roger Dawson
Quoted in "Muhammad Ali Defends His Religion" by Lisa L. Colangelo and Clem Richardson in New York Daily News - 21 September 2001.
When asked how he felt about the suspects in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks sharing his Islamic faith. Quoted in "Bush: 'Justice Will Be Done'" at CNN - 20 September 2001.
If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
Quoted in "Muhammad Ali" by George Plimpton in "The TIME 100" in TIME - 1999.
Quoted in Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties - 1999, by Mike Marqusee. Also quoted in the International Socialist Review Issue 33 - January–February 2004.
That's the only way you gonna save this sucker. He's doomed.
Comment prior to the "Rumble in the Jungle" about George Foreman prior to the fight, when referee Clayton warned Ali that if he didn't stop talking he would stop the fight - 30 October 1974.
To George Foreman before the start of the "Rumble in the Jungle" as the referee is giving them instructions - 30 October 1974.