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To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
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I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.
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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
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I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.
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When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.
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What keeps me going is goals.
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The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night.
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Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.
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White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.
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I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.
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I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
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The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.
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God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
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I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
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He's too ugly to be the champ!
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I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'