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Many People Are Quick To Say That We Are Not Recognized By Muslims In The East . And I Start With The Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, He Went Throughout The Holy City Of Mecca To Dine And Wine With Gamal Abdel Nasser Of Egypt And All Of The Black, Mainly The Rulers Of The Islamic Countries.

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Many People Are Quick To Say That We Are Not Recognized By Muslims In The East . And I Start With The Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, He Went Throughout The Holy City Of Mecca To Dine And Wine With Gamal Abdel Nasser Of Egypt And All Of The Black, Mainly The Rulers Of The Islamic Countries.

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

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.

I'd Like To Live To A Hundred.

The Man Of Least Capacity Is The One Who Shows Himself Incapable Of Self-correction.

Brooding Over Blunders Is The Biggest Blunder.

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

The Sweetness Of Life Lies In Dispensing With Formalities.

Sweetness Of Life

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Truly Great People In History Never Wanted To Be Great For Themselves. All They Wanted Was The Chance To Do Good For Others And Be Close To God.

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The Man Who Has No Imagination Has No Wings.

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I Was Saying "i'm The Greatest" Long Before I Believed It.

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

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

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I Don't Call Myself A Political Figure But I'm Taken To Be.

I'm Most Proud Of My Family.

Service To Others Is The Rent You Pay For Your Room Here On Earth.

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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.

God Tries You In Certain, Certain Ways. Some People Are Rich, And They Believe In God. They Lose The Money, Things Get Hard, They Get Weak And Quit Going To Church. Quit Serving God Like They Did.

I'm So Mean I Make Medicine Sick!

When Your Mother Dies, It Really Hurts. But With Time, You Get Used To It. That's Nature's Way.

The Most Powerful Military Country In The World, America - Which Makes All The Guns, All The Machinery, All The Bullets - Taught Us How To Shoot The Guns.

Age Is Whatever You Think It Is. You Are As Old As You Think You Are.

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

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I Am The Greatest. I Said That Even Before I Knew I Was. Don't Tell Me I Can't Do Something. Don't Tell Me It's Impossible. Don't Tell Me I'm Not The Greatest. I'm The Double Greatest.

I'm Going To, Not I'm Gonna. Talk Intelligent

Stumbling Is The Fruit Of Haste.

They Used To Draw Cartoons Of Jews In Germany. Later They Started Killing Them In The Holocaust.

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

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I Have Learned To Live My Life One Step, One Breath, And One Moment At A Time, But It Was A Long Road. I Set Out On A Journey Of Love, Seeking Truth, Peace And Understanding. I Am Still Learning.

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

Lakes, Rivers, Streams...all Are Water And All Travel To The Same Destination. So It Is With Religion.

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

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!”

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'.

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

You Know I Hate Fighting. If I Knew How To Make A Living Some Other Way, I Would.

If You Wonder What The Difference Between Them And Me Is, I'll Break The News: You Never Heard Of Them. Most Of Them ... Can Fight Almost As Good As I Can. I'm Just Saying You Never Heard Of Them.

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 Can't Take No Chinese Man And Give Him No Puerto Rican Woman And Talking Like They're In Love And Emotionally In Love And Physically.

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

Since I Won't Let The Critics Seal My Fate, They Keep Hollering I'm Full Of Hate. But They Don't Really Hurt Me None, 'cause I'm Doing Good And Having Fun.

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

Be Obedient To Your Superior, And Your Inferior Will Obey You.

God Gave Me This Illness To Remind Me That I'm Not Number One; He Is.

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.

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.

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

I Still Looked The Same - I Had A Swollen Jaw.

There Ain't No Such Thing As Black Muslims. That's How They Tried To Cut Off All My Brothers In The Rest Of The World And Divide Us In America And Make Other Muslims Think That We Are Not With Them.we Are All The Same. I Recognise Them And They Recognise Me. I'm Invited To All Of Their Homes All Over The World And I'm Invited To Muslim Countries.

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

I’m Gonna Show You How Great I Am.

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 Try Not To Speak About All The Charities And People I Help, Because I Believe We Can Only Be Truly Generous When We Expect Nothing In Return.

It's Lack Of Faith That Makes People Afraid Of Meeting Challenges, And I Believed In Myself.

Now You See Me, Now You Don't. George Thinks He Will, But I Know He Won't!

Howard Cosell Was Gonna Be A Boxer When He Was A Kid Only They Couldn't Find A Mouthpiece Big Enough.

I'm Relyin' On Almighty God, Allah, And Whatever Happens Happens.

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

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.

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

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