"If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right."
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"What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love."
"I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history"
"Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God."
"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 don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting."
"The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans."
"I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens."
"I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it."
"I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion."
"To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach."
"In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other."
"I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others."
"I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me."
"We are stone enemies when the bell rings"
"I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it."
"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."
"There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win."
"Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold."
"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."