I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.