You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

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

I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.