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Fifteen Referees. I Want Fifteen Referees To Be At This Fight Because There Ain't No One Man Who Can Keep Up With The Pace I'm Gonna Set Except Me. There's Not A Man Alive Who Can Whup Me. I'm Too Fast. I'm Too Smart. I'm Too Pretty. I Should Be A Postage Stamp. That's The Only Way I'll Ever Get Licked.

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Fifteen Referees. I Want

Muhammad Ali

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Fifteen Referees. I Want Fifteen Referees To Be At This Fight Because There Ain't No One Man Who Can Keep Up With The Pace I'm Gonna Set Except Me. There's Not A Man Alive Who Can Whup Me. I'm Too Fast. I'm Too Smart. I'm Too Pretty. I Should Be A Postage Stamp. That's The Only Way I'll Ever Get Licked.

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Whoever Knocks Persistently, Ends By Entering.

If You Want To Be Equal With Me, You Can Get Your Own Rolls-royce, Your Own House And Your Own Million Dollars.

I Would Like To Say Boxing Cannot Compared With War. We Have Gloves On, We Have Cushions, We Have Referees, We Have Judges, We Have Ambulances There, The Intention Not To Kill, We Don't Have Steel There, We Don't Have Bullets, We Don't Kill Momma, Kill Daddy, Kill Baby, Our Intention Is A Sport, And We're Not There To Kill, So Boxing Cannot Be Compared In No Way With Machineguns And Bombs And Everything That Used.

I Got It Made The Rest Of My Life, Financially And In Every Other Way. There's Nobody In The World Like Me. I'm Getting Out Just In Time. If I Was Twenty Seven, I Could Still Kick Ass. I Don't Have To Beat Holmes. Why? I Raised Him, He Worked Three Years As A Sparring Partner For Me.

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I Can Love Freedom And The Flesh And Blood Of My People Moreso Than I Do The Money.

Sometimes Howard [cosell] Makes Me Wish I Was A Dog And He Was A Fireplug.

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.

My Toughest Opponent Has Always Been Me.

So When I Heard That We Don't Have Our Names, We Don't Speak Our True Arabic Language, We Were Robbed Of Islam, Our True Religion, And We've Been Made Deaf, Dumb, And Blind In Slavery.and Elijah Muhammad Was Taught By Allah, Who We Refer To As God, To Teach Us The Truth That Will Free Us.and When I Heard It, I've Been Free Ever Since. I Have No Racial Problems, I Don't Go Where I'm Not Wanted.

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