"I’m a Muslim. I believe in Allah and peace. I don’t believe in wars or killing innocent people."

"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never …"

"My toughest opponent was 'myself'. I always had to be the greatest."

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I ma…"

"I'd rather be a Muslim than a Christian, because Christians believe in a white God and a white Jesus, and I don't believe in that."