Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.