Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.