I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.