"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 …"

"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…"

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see."

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

"I shook up the world! I shook up the world! I shook up the world!"