I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

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

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.