When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the millions of dollars and the title, the ministry. So, I chose the ministry. If I was not sincere, then I would have easily went to Vietnam, boxin' exhibitions, and made a couple of cool million.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.