People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

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.

You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier