Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.