The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.

I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.