Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices
My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.
In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away
I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.
I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'
There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.
The one thing I don't understand is war.
I don't look like no kiwi bird
We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.
Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.
I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.
You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome, but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home. A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight, but you should have seen him on the comeback night.
Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.
I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.
Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.
I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
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.
I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator.
I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.
I didn't deny nothing I believe. I'm still the same everything.
