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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!”

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Muhammad Ali

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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!”

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Lighting That Torch In Atlanta Didn't Make Me Nervous. Standing Up To The Government - That Made Me Nervous.

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I Don't Smoke But I Keep A Match Box In My Pocket, When My Heart Slips Towards Sin, I Burn The Matchstick And Heat My Palm With It, Then Say To Myself, "ali You Can't Even Bear This Heat, How Would You Bear The Unbearable Heat Of Hellfire?"

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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.

I Am America. I Am The Part You Won't Recognize. But Get Used To Me. Black, Confident, Cocky; My Name, Not Yours; My Religion, Not Yours; My Goals, My Own; Get Used To Me.

I Should Be A Postage Stamp. That’s The Only Way I’ll Ever Get Licked!

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Now, If I Even Say The Wrong Thing I Make The News.

You Don't Want No Pie In The Sky When You Die, You Want Something Here On The Ground While You're Still Around.

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I Have More Fans And More Followers And More Supporters. Because The People Who Actually Saw The Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali Fight, They Saw Me Win At Least Nine Rounds - The People Who Know Boxing.

You Got Black People In An All-white Country And They Don't Know Nothing About Themselves.

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I Said I Was The Greatest, Not The Smartest.

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I Don't Count My Sit-ups. I Only Start Counting When It Starts Hurting. That Is When I Start Counting, Because Then It Really Counts. That's What Makes You A Champion.

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All Of Us Are So Mixed. My Great-grandfather Was White.

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

I'm The Most Recognized And Loved Man That Ever Lived Cuz There Weren't No Satellites When Jesus And Moses Were Around, So People Far Away In The Villages Didn't Know About Them.

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

My Definition Of Evil Is Unfriendliness.

I Have The World Heavyweight Title Not Because It Was 'given' To Me, Not Because Of My Race Or Religion, But Because I Won It In The Ring Through My Own Boxing Ability.

I Have A Radar Built Inside Me To Avoid Punches

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.'

My Face Is So Pretty, You Don’t See A Scar, Which Proves I’m The King Of The Ring By Far.

I'm The Greatest Fighter In The Entire World, How Can I Be Afraid? I Love People And People Love Me.

To Be A Follower Of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, You Have To Completely Extain From Alcohol, Or Fornication, Adultered, Killin', Stealin', Lyin'. I Would Say That The People Are Not Rejectin' The Honorable Elijah Mohammed Because They Don't Believe What He Teach.

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

When You Saw Me In The Boxing Ring Fighting, It Wasn't Just So I Could Beat My Opponent. My Fighting Had A Purpose. I Had To Be Successful In Order To Get People To Listen To The Things I Had To Say.

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

I Was The First One In The Gym, And The Last One To Leave.

It's Just A Job. Grass Grows, Birds Fly, Waves Pound The Sand. I Beat People Up.

I'm Not Trying To Get Power Over White. I'm Involved In A Freedom Struggle. Not A Power Struggle.

Everything I Got Comes From Elijah Mohammed. He Taught Me Who I Was, He Made Me Proud, He Made Me Fearless, He Made Me Love My Own, I’ve Turned Down Millions To Keep From Selling Out My People, The Beautiful Name Mohammed Ali. And White People Cannot Destroy Me Like They Have Other Big Ministers Of His In The Past By Telling Us Oh, You Speak Good, You Should Be The Leader.white People Make Me Thinkin' That I'm Smart, And As Soon As I Leave Elijah You Can Get Me. But As Long As I Stay With The Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm Safe.

If You Haven't Learned The Meaning Of Friendship, You Really Haven't Learned Anything.

Children Make You Want To Start Life Over.

Life Is Like A Ship. There's People Dancing On A Ship.there's A Lot Of Money On The Ship, But I Cannot Integrate On The Ship Or Get Equality On The Ship.and I Never Could. I'm Just In The Galley Working And I Never Could Get Up To See The Captain Of The Ship.

I Want Fifteen Referees At This Fight…because There Ain’t No One Man Who Can Keep Up With The Pace I’m Gonna Set Except Me

The Man Who Has No Imagination Has No Wings.

Every Day Is Different, And Some Days Are Better Than Others, But No Matter How Challenging The Day, I Get Up And Live It.

I've Never Let Anyone Talk Me Into Not Believing In Myself

I Hated Every Minute Of Training, But I Said, 'don't Quit. Suffer Now And Live The Rest Of Your Life As A Champion.'

The Word Had Spread And People Were Piling Around Us. But Then Very Suddenly, Sonny Liston Froze Me With That Look Of His. He Said Real Quiet, 'let's Go On Over Here.' And He Led The Way To A Table And The People Hung Back. I Ain't Going To Lie. This Was The Only Time Since I Have Known Sonny Liston That He Really Scared Me.

Hating People Because Of Their Color Is Wrong. And It Doesn't Matter Which Color Does The Hating. It's Just Plain Wrong.

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I Don't Always Know What I'm Talking About, But I Know I'm Right.

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Santa Claus Was White And Everything Bad Was Black. The Little Ugly Duckling Was The Black Duck, And The Black Cat Was The Bad Luck. And If I Threaten You, I'm Going To Blackmail You.i Said, 'momma, Why Don't They Call It 'whitemail'? They Lie Too.'

When You Come To The Fight Don't Block The Halls And Don't Block The Door, For Y'all May Go Home After Round Four.

I'm Definitely Gonna Be The People's Champion ... But I Just Ain't Gonna Be The Champ The Way You Want Me To Be The Champ. I'm Gonna Be The Champ The Way I Wanna Be.

What You Are Thinking Is What You Are Becoming.

Hana, Everything That God Made Valuable In The World Is Covered And Hard To Get To. Where Do You Find Diamonds? Deep Down In The Ground, Covered And Protected. Where Do You Find Pearls? Deep Down At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Covered Up And Protected In A Beautiful Shell. Where Do You Find Gold? Way Down In The Mine, Covered Over With Layers And Layers Of Rock. You've Got To Work Hard To Get To Them.

I Figured That If I Said It Enough, I Would Convince The World That I Really Was The Greatest.

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Anywhere I Go, There Is Always An Incredible Crowd That Follows Me. In Rome, As I Land At The Airport, Even The Men Kiss Me. I Love Rome.

Islam Religion Has No Color Distinction, We Are Just Muslims.

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

I Came Back To Louisville After The Olympics With My Shiny Gold Medal. Went Into A Luncheonette Where Black Folks Couldn't Eat. Thought I'd Put Them On The Spot. I Sat Down And Asked For A Meal. The Olympic Champion Wearing His Gold Medal. They Said, "we Don't Serve Niggers Here." I Said, "that's Okay, I Don't Eat 'em." But They Put Me Out In The Street. So I Went Down To The River, The Ohio River, And Threw My Gold Medal In It.

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.

I'm Proud, And Islam Did It. And After These Things That I Heard In Church, A Preacher And Watching This And That, I Knew Something Was Wrong But I Couldn't Pinpoint It.

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

Allah's The Arabic Term For God. Stand Up For God, Fight For God, Work For God And Do The Right Thing, And Go The Right Way, Things Will End Up In Your Corner.

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.

You Lose Nothing When Fighting For A Cause ... In My Mind The Losers Are Those Who Don't Have A Cause They Care About.

Get Up And Say Elijah Muhammad Is Wrong When He Says White Are The Devil? They Have To Prove They Are Not The Devil.

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If America Were In A Just War I'd Volunteer For The Front Line. I'd Do The Shuffling And Win The War.

What Keeps Me Going Is Goals.

I'm So Fast I Run Through A Hurricane And Not Get Wet. George Foreman Is Gonna Pay Me A Dept.

We Followed The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, Who Is The Boss. And We Don't Waste A Lot Of Time Arguin' About A Dead Black Man, Malcolm X, When The Whites Are Our Common Enemies.

Sometimes I Feel A Lot Of Things But I Keep It In. I'm Sure We All Have This Built-in Radar Of What We Predict And When It Happens, We Feel 'i Knew It'.

Success Is Not Achieved By Winning All The Time. Real Success Comes When We Rise After We Fall.

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

Fighting By Itself Doesn't Interest Me Anymore. I Want To Help People, The Black People And I Need Any Kind Of Media To Spread My Thought: God, Charity, Peace.

Sonny Liston Is Great. But He'll Fall In Eight.

I Outwit Them, And Then I Outhit Them

Even The Greatest Was Once A Beginner. Don't Be Afraid To Take That First Step.

Unknown Make New Friends But Keep The Old Ones; One Is Silver And The Other's Gold.

Elijah Muhammad Teaches Us The Truth Of God Beautified The Planet By Separating Everybody In Different Countries For Themselves: Chinese In China, English In England, Puerto Ricans In Puerto Rico, Ethiopians In Ethiopia, Arabians In Arabia, Egyptians In Egypt, And Americans Took That Country And Stole It Away So There's Always Going To Be Trouble And Chaos.

Religions Have Different Names, And They All Contain Truth, Expressed In Different Ways Forms And Times

Just Remember That You Don't Have To Be What They Want You To Be.

The Will Must Be Stronger Than The Skill.

I Barely Got Out Of School, I Got Out Of School, Mainly, Because I Was A Champ, And I Actually Didn't Pass. I Won't Name The Teachers That Put Me Through, But I Want. If I Was Not A Muslim, Or A Follower Of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed I Couldn't Talk To Somebody For Two Minutes. I Believe I Can Hold My Own As An Intelligent Conversation, But It All Come From The Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

That's Okay, I'm Still The Greatest.

I Had Something To Do, Which Most Kids Really Need. Something They Can Look Forward To - A Goal, A Purpose To Work Towards. Something To Achieve. Keeps Them Out Of Trouble.

So Now I'm Going To Forget The 400 Years Of Lynching And Killing Raping And Depriving My People Feeding Of Justice And Equality And The Lowest Of Low Last Respect And I'm Going To Look At Two Or Three White People Who Are Trying To Do Right And Don't See The Other Million Who Are Trying To Kill Me? I'm Not That Big Of A Fool.

Religions All Have Different Names, But They All Contain The Same Truths. ... I Think The People Of Our Religion Should Be Tolerant And Understand People Believe Different Things.

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

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

Friendship Is Definitely The Most Difficult Detail On The Globe To Elucidate. It Is Really Not Something You Understand At School. But If You Have Not Realized The Which Means Of Friendship, You Truly Have Not Realized Anything.

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

Holmes Is So Ugly, His Grandmother Said When He Started To Cry The Tears Would Stop And Roll Down The Back Of His Head.

I'm Gonna Have To Be Killed Before I Lose, And I Ain't Going To Die Easy.

Old Age Is Just A Record Of One's Whole Life.

Hell No / I Ain't Going To Go / Clean Out My Cell / And Take My Tail / To Jail / Without Bail / Because It's Better There Eating / Watching Television Fed / Than In Vietnam With Your White Folks Dead.

Put Yourself Out On A Limb, Sucka, Like Me! - Young Cassius Clay To Heavily Favored Thug Sonny Liston During The Weigh In Before Cassius Wins His First Title And Changes His Name To Muhammad Ali.

True Giving Happens When We Give From Our Heart.

I Have A Beautiful Daughter, Beautiful Wife.they Look Like Me, We All Happy And I Don't Have No Trouble. And I Ain't That Much In Love With No Woman To Go Through That Hell - Ain't No One Woman That Good.

Sonny Liston Is Nothing. The Man Can't Talk. The Man Can't Fight. The Man Needs Talking Lessons. The Man Needs Boxing Lessons. And Since He's Gonna Fight Me, He Needs Falling Lessons.

Impossible Is Not A Fact, It's An Opinion.

We Have One Life / It Soon Will Be Past / What We Do For God / Is All That Will Last.

How Could They Say That My Religion, Islam Was A 'race Hate' Religion After All The Plunder And Enslavement And Domination Of My People By White Christians In The Name Of White Supremacy?

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.

Women Are The Field That Produces Our Nation. And If You Can't Protect Your Women, You Can't Protect Your Nation.

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We Can't Be Brave Without Fear.

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.

Politicians Are Always Saying That They Are In Support Of Iraqi Citizens And Now They Are Increasing The Price Of Petrol. We Were Oppressed For 35 Years. We Are Like A Sick Patient Who Is In Need Of Care, And They Are Increasing Prices

Nobody Has To Tell Me That This Is A Serious Business. I'm Not Fighting One Man. I'm Fighting A Lot Of Men, Showing A Lot Of 'em, Here Is One Man They Couldn't Defeat, Couldn't Conquer. My Mission Is To Bring Freedom To 30m Black People

The Bull Is Stronger, But The Matador Is Smarter.

I Knew I Had Him In The First Round. Almighty God Was With Me. I Want Everyone To Bear Witness, I Am The Greatest! I'm The Greatest Thing That Ever Lived. I Don't Have A Mark On My Face, And I Upset Sonny Liston, And I Just Turned Twenty-two Years Old. I Must Be The Greatest. I Showed The World. I Talk To God Everyday. I Know The Real God. I Shook Up The World, I'm The King Of The World. You Must Listen To Me. I Am The Greatest! I Can't Be Beat!

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.

Don't Count The Days, Make The Days Count.

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