Muhammad Quotes
I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.
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.
I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.
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.'
Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.
So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.
But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.
Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
"I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. I shook up the world! I want justice..."
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.
The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?
The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!
All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking
Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.
We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!
You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.
Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.
Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
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.
It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me
Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.
Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.
Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?
I'm not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don't even know where I get them.
There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.
People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.