"The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ."

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."

"Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up."

"I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."