Cassius Clay quotes:

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  • Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing. -- Floyd Patterson
  • If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder. -- Sonny Liston
  • Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay. -- Muhammad Ali
  • He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. -- David Bowie
  • As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. -- Rand Paul
  • Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day. -- Muhammad Ali
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