Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.