I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.

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.

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

My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

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.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.