I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

I'm pretty as a girl.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, he went throughout the Holy City of Mecca to dine and wine with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and all of the black, mainly the rulers of the Islamic countries.