I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.

I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.

When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.