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.

What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

Children make you want to start life over.

To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.