Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.