I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

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.

What keeps me going is goals.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.