I'm going to show you how great I am!

When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.