Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.

I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.