When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.