空肚食早餐、核心內圍定核心外圍？「黎天王」的金句雖然深入民心，但拳王阿里在擂台以外亦是金句王，名言多多的阿里曾經多次在不同場合讚自己帥，甚至說「我如此帥很難會謙虛」，又會揶揄對手哭的樣子難看，阿里金句絕對堅過「黎天王」。
「像蝴蝶般飛舞、像蜜蜂般螫刺，他雙手無法打到眼睛看不見的東西。」
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.”
「不要數算著過日子，要讓日子過得有意義。」
“Don’t count the days; make the days count.”
「當你像我一樣偉大時是很難去謙虛的。」
“It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am”
「一個人在50歲時對這個世界視野與他20歲一樣，他已經浪費了30年的生命。」
“A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
「我討厭每一分鐘的訓練，但我說『別放棄，現在受苦然後餘生都以冠軍身份度過。』
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
「因為膚色而憎恨別人是錯的。不論你憎恨的是哪一種膚色，這就是錯。」
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”
1960年羅馬奧運於次重量級賽事奪冠
「令美國變成最強是我的目標，為此我在比賽中擊倒俄羅斯及波蘭的選手，並為美國贏得金牌。」
“To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the USA won the medal of gold. The Greeks said you're better than the Cassius of old.”
1960年奧運向柏達臣（Floyd Patterson）挑戰
「Floyd，終有一日我會將你打敗，因為我是最強的人！」
“Hey Floyd - I seen you! Someday I'm gonna whup you! Don't you forget, I am the greatest!”
The duels with Frazier傅利沙
「傅利沙哭泣的樣子實在太難看了，他的眼淚都流到他的腦後。」
“Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.”
政治
「拳擊運動，就是大量白人在看兩個男人在台上互相打鬥。」
“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”
拒絕為美軍服役
「他們（美軍）為甚麼要求我穿上制服，走到離家一萬里外的地方，在越南投擲炸彈以及射殺黃種人。這邊廂在路易斯安那州，卻有一些被叫作黑鬼（Negro）的人受到狗都不如的對待，連基本人權都沒有。」
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”
比賽
「像蝴蝶般飛舞、像蜜蜂般螫刺」
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”