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Number One Comes Freedom First For My People And Equality. And This Is What I Plan To Do After I'm Through Fighting - Working With Nothing But The People, The Little People In The Alleys: The Downtrodden People, Going Out And Helping Them With My Image.

All Black Americans Have Slave Names. They Have White Names; Names That The Slave Master Has Given To Them.

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I Can't Believe Some Of The Things I Did.can't Believe It. Sayin' I Was The Greatest And The Beautifulist And I Was Gonna Whup This Guy And That Guy, Sayin' I'm Pretty, I Can't Be Beat.

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Will Be A Divine Fight, A Holy War...armageddon On A Miniature Scale.

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The Will Must Be Stronger Than The Skill.

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The Greater Our Level Of Understanding, The Harder The Tests Become.

If We Were Second Class Citizens We'd Be Driving Old Cadillacs And Living Good. If We Were First Class We'd Be Driving A Rolls Royce.

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Frazier Is So Ugly That He Should Donate His Face To The Us Bureau Of Wild Life.

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No One Starts Out On Top. You Have To Work Your Way Up.

No Pork, Soda Pop, Cigarettes, Alcohol – Ever!

I Am So Mean I've Handcuffed Lightnin' And Thrown Thunder In Jail.

I'm Most Proud Of My Family.

I Have Nothing To Lose By Standing Up And Following My Beliefs. So I'll Go To Jail, So What? We Have Been In Jail For Years.

I Think We're All Brothers - That's The Truth. But The Press Gave Us The Name Black Muslims To Cut Us Off From The Others.

I’m Gonna Whup Whoever Stole My Bike!

Whatever The Challenge Was, However Unattainable The Goal May Have Seemed, I Never Let Anyone Talk Me Out Of Believing In Myself.

You Made A Big Mistake By Letting Me Come, Because Now I'm Going After Your Job

It Isn't The Mountains That Wear You Out; It's The Pebble In Your Shoe.

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Silence Is Golden When You Can't Think Of A Good Answer.

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I Got Nothing Against No Viet Cong. No Vietnamese Ever Called Me A >.

Success Is Not Achieved By Winning All The Time. Real Success Comes When We Rise After We Fall. Some Mountains Are Higher Than Others. Some Roads Steeper Than The Next. There Are Hardships And Setbacks But You Cannot Let Them Stop You. Even On The Steepest Road You Must Not Turn Back.

The Outgoing And Spontaneous Person That The World Knew While I Was Boxing Was A Persona That I Created To Sell Tickets And Promote My Career. In My Private Life, I Am Quiet And Reflective By Nature.

I'm Not Going To Be That Kind Of A Fighter. I'm Going To Dance And Be Pretty. I'm Just Going To Win On Points.and If I Hurt My Man I'm Going To Let Him Go And I'm Not Going To Kill Him Just Because Somebody's Watching.

Outrun The People Who Quit When They Feel Discomfort, Outrun The People Who Stop Because Of Despair, Outrun The People Who Are Delayed Because Of Prejudice, Outrun The People Who Surrender To Failure, And Outrun The Opponent Who Loses Sight Of The Goal. Because If You Want To Win, The Will Can Never Retire, The Race Can Never Stop, And Faith Can Never Weaken.

On My Twelfth Birthday, I Got A New Bicycle As A Present From My Folks, And I Rode It To A Fair That Was Being Held At The Columbia Gymnasium, And When I Come Out, My Bike Was Gone. I Was So Mad I Was Crying, And A Policeman, Joe Martin, Come Up And I Told Him I Was Going To Whip Whoever Took My Bike. He Said I Ought To Take Some Boxing Lessons To Learn How To Whip The Thief Better, And I Did. That's When I Started Fighting.

Frazier Soaked It All Up Like A Sponge. When They Arrived In Manila It Was The Same Story. Ali Poured Scorn On His Opponent. Humiliated Him. Joe Had The Heart Of A Lion But Verbally He Was Out Of His Depth When Ali Got Going. One Time, As Fight Day Approached, Ali Spotted Frazier On A Hotel Balcony, Grabbed A Security Guard's Gun And Fired Some Rounds At Him. Everybody Knew It Wasn't Live Ammo But It Still Startled The Hell Out Of Joe.] Go Back In Your Hole, Gorilla, You Gonna Scare The People! Come Out Again And I'm Gonna Kill Ya Before Time!”

You Can Do What You Want. But It's Nature To Be With Your Own. I Want To Be With My Own.

Wars Of Nations Are Fought To Change Maps. But Wars Of Poverty Are Fought To Map Change.

No Woman On This Whole Earth Can Please Me And Cook For Me And Socialise And Talk To Me Like My American Black Woman.

We Cannot Change The Koran Or Make No Modifications, This Cannot Be Done, Or It Would No Longer Be Holy.

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It's Ain't Sad That I Want My Child To Look Like Me? Every Intelligent Person Wants Their Child To Look Like Him.

If You Even Dream Of Beating Me You'd Better Wake Up And Apologize.

Put Yourself Out On A Limb, Sucka, Like Me!

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Stumbling Is The Fruit Of Haste.

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.

I Just Can't See Myself With A Man On The Ropes And Just To Prove How Bad I Am - And I See In His Eyes, His Head, He's Hopeless - And I'm Just Deliberately Hitting. I Don't Do That.

I'm Just Hoping That People Understand That Islam Is Peace And Not Violence.

Don't Ever Squeeze A Fighter's Hand, Man. You're Doing Good Just To Lay Your Eyes On Me

I Think I Could Beat Joe Frazier Singing. I Was In A Broadway Musical Called Big Time Buck Wright.

You May Talk About Sweden, You May Talk About Rome, But Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's Home. A Lot Of People Said That Floyd Couldn't Fight, But You Should Have Seen Him On The Comeback Night.

When People Are Forced To Interact To Survive, Their Prejudices Diminish.

It's Impossible For 30 Million Black People To Be Violent Against 170 Million - We Need A Mental Revolution, Unity In Coming Together, And Not Physical.

Black People We've Been Taught That We Will Never Be Free, Until Some Will Have To Die, Some Will Have To Give Up Wealth, Their Loved Ones, And Their Health, So, What I'm Doin' Is For Myself And For Justice For Black People, Runnin' Will Kill It All, It'll Make Me A Coward.

I Know I Got It Made While The Masses Of Black People Are Catchin' Hell, But As Long As They Ain't Free, I Ain't Free.

I'd Like To Say That Muslims Are Never In Violence With White People. It's The Black Man Who Love You. See, You Don't Let Him In Your Toilet, You Don't Let Him In Your Restroom, You Don't Let Him Marry Your Daughter, You Gotta Fight. So, We're Not Gonna Be Botherin' You, You Understand. Muslims Don't Come In, We Don't Have No Trouble With You. It's Just The Integrator.

I Had My Style Of Moving And Dancing And Whatever I Do. What You Have To Do, Is Take All The Fighters You Want And Me And Rank Me Where You Want. I Can't Tell You.

I’m Gonna Show You How Great I Am.

I Was Always Curious. And I Always Wondered Why I Had To Die To Go To Heaven.

My Mama Told Me I Was Already In A Hurry As A Child. I Even Had Measles And Chicken Pox At The Same Time

Joe Frazier Is Ugly. He Has No Rhythm, No Footwork, No Class, He Cannot Talk.

Only The Nose Knows Where The Nose Goes When The Door Close.

I Make Predictions About What I'm Going To Do Before A Fight, That Makes Me Nervous Because I've Gotten So Good At It Until People Really Look For Me To Do It.if I Say The Man's Going To Fall In Round Five, Like Your Man Henry Cooper Here, He Was Stopped In Round Five But It Was On A Cut - It Wasn't Because He Was Out. But Usually 'm On The Spot With My Predictions And Some People Really Gamble And Bet Money On The Rounds I Say.

No One Knows What To Say In The Loser's Locker Room.

I Was Always At The Gymnasium Every Day At Six O'clock After School. In The Mornings I Would Run, Looking Forward To Future Golden Gloves And Olympic Tournaments.

Black People In America Will Never Be Free So Long As They're On The White Man's Land. We Can't Be Free Until We Get Our Own Land And Our Own Country In North America. When We Separate From America And Take Maybe Ten States, Then We'll Be Free.

Boxing Is Good For The Livelihood But Mainly, Money Don't Really Mean Nothing.

Why Do I Want My Wife To Show Off Her Panties When The Wind Blows? Horses Show Their Behinds, And Cows And Mules, Not Humans.

I Do A Lot Of Reading, A Lot Of Studying. I Ask Questions, I'll Go Out, Travel These Countries, I'll Watch How Their People Live, And I Learn.

That Man Was Beautiful. Timing, Speed, Reflexes, Rhythm, His Body, Everything Was Beautiful. And To Me, Still, I Would Say Pound For Pound... I'd Say I'm The Greatest Heavyweight Of All Time, But Pound For Pound, I Still Say Sugar Ray Robinson Was The Greatest Of All Time.

My Toughest Fight Was With My First Wife.

All I Want Now Is To Be A Nice, Clean Gentleman. I've Proved My Point. Now I'm Going To Set An Example For All The Nice Boys And Girls. I'm Through Talking

If We Continue To Think And Live As If We Belong Only To Different Cultures And Different Religions, With Separate Missions And Goals, We Will Always Be In Self-defeating Competition With Each Other. Once We Realize We Are All Members Of Humanity, We Will Want To Compete In The Spirit Of Love.

I Don't Consider Myself No Attractive Man. People Like Tom Jones And Elvis Presley - I'm Not Nothing Like That.

The World Badly Needs More Peaceful And Loving Men Like Sri Chinmoy. I Am A Muslim And He Is Serving All People Of Peace. Sri Chinmoy Is Doing So Much For The World, For People Of All Faiths, Because Of His Own Peace And Faith.

I'm Going To Show You How Great I Am!

Only Last Week I Murdered A Rock, Injured A Stone And Hospitalized A Brick.

So I Didn't Pass. It Was The Army's Decision That They Didn't Want Me To Go Into The Service. They're The Boss. I Don't Want To Say No Whole Lot About It.

If The Boxers Are A Little More Colorful, Talk A Little Like I Did And Just Do Half As Much As I Did For Boxing, It Will Be All Right.

The Show Was Bad, But I Was Great

Whoever Listens To Slander Is Himself A Slanderer.

Christians Are My Brothers, Hindus Are My Brothers, All Of Them Are My Brothers. We Just Think Different And Believe Different.

A Man With No Imaginations Has No Wings.

I'm The Fastest Thing On Two Feet.

He's Too Ugly To Be The Champ!

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.

I Love My People And I Don't Hate Nobody And It Keeps Me Out Of Trouble.

I Am The Astronaut Of Boxing. Joe Louis And Dempsey Were Just Jet Pilots. I'm In A World Of My Own.

Money And Riches Don't Mean Nothing To Me. I Don't Care Nothing About Being No Rich Individual. I'm Not Living For Glory Or For Fame; All This Is Doomed For Destruction. You Got It Today, Tomorrow It's Gone. I Got Bigger Things On My Mind Than That. I Got Islam On My Mind.

If I Kept My Mouth Shut, Because I Can Make Millions, That Isn't Doing Nothing.

I Won The Olympic Gold Medal In Rome, Italy. Olympic Champion. The Russian Standing Right Here, And The Pole Right Here.

That Computer Was Made In Alabama

I Ain't Got No Quarrel With Them Viet Cong.

It's Hard To Beat A Guy When He's Got His Mind Made Up That He's Going To Win.

There Live A Great Man Named Joe Who Was Belittled By A Loudmouth Foe. While His Rival Would Taunt And Tease Joe Silently Bore The Stings. And Then Fought Like Gladiator In The Ring.

Who Is The Descendant Of The Slavemasters A Descendant Of Slaves To Fight Other People In Thier Own Country?

I Saw That Streak In Him When He Told Me, 'get The Hell Out Of Here Or I'll Wipe You Out., I Got The Hell Out Of There, Liston Really Scared Me.

America Don't Have No Future! America's Going To Be Destroyed! Allah's Going To Divinely Chastise America! Violence, Crimes, Earthquakes - There's Gonna Be All Kinds Of Trouble. America's Going To Pay For All Its Lynchings And Killings Of Slaves And What It's Done To Black People.

What’s My Greatest Weakness? Sad Stories, People With Problems

I Outwit Them, And Then I Outhit Them

Your Body Is Sacred. You’re Far More Precious Than Diamonds And Pearls, And You Should Be Covered Too.

It All Started To Come Together When I Realized That Boxing Was How I Was Going To Succeed In Life.

Allah Is The Greatest. I'm Just The Greatest Boxer.

God Will Not Place A Burden On A Man's Shoulders Knowing That He Cannot Carry It.

I Said, 'oh, I Know. If The White Folks Is In Heaven Too, Then The Black Angels Were In The Kitchen, Preparing The Milk And Honey.'

There Are Billions Of People In The World, And Every One Of Them Is Special. No One Else In The World Is Like You.

No Boxer In The History Of Boxing Has Had Parkinson's. There's No Injury In My Brain That Suggests That The Illness Came From Boxing.

Islam Is Against Killing, Terrorism, And Murder. People Who Commit These Acts In The Name Of Islam Are Wrong. And If I Had A Chance I Would Do Something About It.

My Toughest Opponent Has Always Been Me.

Some People Have Special Resources Inside, And When God Blesses You To Have More Than Others, You Have A Responsibility To Use It Right

People Don't Realise What They Had Till It's Gone. Like President Kennedy - Nobody Like Him. Like The Beatles, There Will Never Be Anything Like Them. Like My Man, Elvis Presley - I Was The Elvis Of Boxing.

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