The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.

Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.