If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.

I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.