What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.

There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

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.

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.