“My main fight is for freedom and equality.”

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.

What counts in the ring is what you can do after you’re exhausted. The same is true of life.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

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 never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

Always have a black bow, a white bow, a rainbow bow – those bows will match literally just about everything!

Do you know, it’s funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Tell me what is life, is it black and white or an explosion of colors setting off at night.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.