I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

Behind each and every difficult mountain is an easy valley. Keep climbing

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.