In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.

My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time

I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.

I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.