Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away.
Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night.
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.
We can’t be brave without fear.
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn’t mean anything, because I didn’t have the right color skin.
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
How could they say that my religion, Islam was a ‘race hate’ religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer.
No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.
You could be the world’s best garbage man, the world’s best model; it don’t matter what you do if you’re the best.
Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you’re through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education.
I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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.