I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.

I'm the fastest thing on two feet.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.