I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.