Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200 years from now we all will be a beautiful cream color. He really believes it. One believe that gittin' some rifles and shootin' up the country is gonna solve it, another believes that education. One day we'll be the president. One believe that we gotta git into the white man's pockets and get all the money.

People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.