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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.

-Muhammad Ali

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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.

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

A Black, A Puerto Rican And A Mexican Are In A Car. Who's Driving? The Police.

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

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.

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Freedom And Equality

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Whites Have Always Put One Against Another And Now They Have A Dead Man Who Was Nothin' But A, He Admitted It Himself, Malcolm X, Was A Tramp Or Had White Women Sellin' Their Body For Him, He Was Nothin' Until The Honorable Elijah Mohammed Made Him Great, Made Him Great, Taught Him, Even His Name X Come From Elijah.

The Only Way For Peace Between The Races Is A Separation Of The Races.

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

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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.

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Church On Sunday

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

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

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

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

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The Sun Is Always Shining Someplace.

I Was In A Broadway Musical Called Big Time Buck Wright.the Play Didn't Make It But I Was A Success. It Lasted Six Days But I Sung Four Songs And There Were Critics, Seriously, In New York Who Said That My Part Was Perfect. So I Can Beat Joe Frazier Singing.

Live Everyday As If It Were Your Last Because Someday You're Going To Be Right.

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I'm The Greatest, I'm A Bad Man, And I'm Pretty!

Everything The Black People Are Doing Comes From The Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They Are Black Now, They Don't Want To Be Called Negroes. This Come From The Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

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There Comes A Time

If You Look At The World The Same Way When You're 50 That You Did When You Were 20, Then You Wasted 30 Years.

We Black People, As A Whole, Are At War We'll Say With The White Power Structure. Not Physically, But We Have Definite Protests To Win The Battle.

This Boldness In Telling The Truth Overshadows Sport Greatly. You Couldn't Get Joe Frazier Or No Boxer On This Show And Get Interest In A Subject Like This. He Couldn't Talk About It.

Telling The Truth

I’m Young, I’m Handsome, I’m Fast, I’m Pretty, And Can’t Possibly Be Beat. They Must Fall In The Round I Call.

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

I Wish People Would Love Everybody Else The Way They Love Me. It Would Be A Better World.

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Stay Away From The Ropes

I Said A Lot Of Things In The Heat Of The Moment That I Shouldn't Have Said. Called Him Names I Shouldn't Have Called Him. I Apologise For That. I'm Sorry. It Was All Meant To Promote The Fight.

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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Not To Commit Faults Counts For More Than To Do Good.

I Don't Know What Truculent Means, But If It's Good, It's Me

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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.

There's Nothing Stressful About Turning 50 Except People Reminding You About It.

Why Should They Ask Me To Put On A Uniform And Go Ten Thousand Miles From Home And Drop Bombs And Bullets On Brown People In Vietnam While So-called Negro People In Louisville Are Treated Like Dogs And Denied Simple Human Rights?

True Giving Happens When We Give From Our Heart.

The One Without Dreams Is The One Without Wings.

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

Champions Aren't Made In The Gyms. Champions Are Made From Something They Have Deep Inside Them-a Desire, A Dream, A Vision.

Every Time I Look In The Mirror, I See That Kid From Louisville, Kentucky, Staring Back At Me. His Name Was Cassius Clay.

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.

Our Only Hope Lies In The Power Of Our Love, Generosity, Tolerance And Understanding And Our Commitment To Making The World A Better Place For All.

There's Nothing Wrong With Getting Knocked Down, As Long As You Get Right Back Up.

I Didn't Deny Nothing I Believe. I'm Still The Same Everything.

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.

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.

That All You Got, George?

I Don't See No Black And White Couples In England Or America Walking Around Proud Holding Their Children And Going Out.

Black And White

I Calculate That I Took 20,000 Punches, But I Earned Millions And Kept A Lot Of It. I May Talk Slow, But My Mind Is Ok.

Frank Sinatra Told Floyd Paterson How He Should Whoop Me. Frank Sinatra.

I Can Remember A Couple Of Real Fights When I Ran. Because They Were Kinda Dangerous.

I Just Try To Stay Half Way Decent Looking. Boxing's A Rough Sport And You Get Hit A Lot.

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.

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.

A Fighter Can Condition His Body To Go Hard Certain Rounds, Then To Coast Certain Rounds.

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

My Wealth Is In My Knowledge Of Self, Love, And Spirituality.

In Florida I Was Illiterate, Boxing Authority Didn't Want Me, Then They Had A Special Psychiatrist To Come To Kentucky, They Checked And They Didn't Want Me. But As Soon As My Name Was Mohammed Ali, As Soon As I Announced I Was A Muslim, Then All Of A Sudden I Became Smart.

I'm Not Into Fashion At All. I Always Wear The Same Thing: Dark Suits. I Don't Even Know Where I Get Them.

Hittin' Hard Don't Mean Nothing If You Don't Find Nothin' To Hit.

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.

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

I'm Most Proud Of My Family.

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.

Sparring Partner

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

Anyhow, I Don't Think Don King's A Very Good Man. But Then Again, I Doubt That A Good Man *could* Succeed In His Business. I'm Sure Boxing Was A Dirty Sport Before He Came Around. He May Have Just Made It Moreso. So That's About All I've Got To Say About Him.

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

You Can't Keep Your Mind On Fighting When You're Thinking About A Woman. You Can't Keep Your Concentration. You Feel Like Sleeping All The Time.

I Didn't Run With A Gang - I Didn't Have Time. There Were A Few Little Street Gangs Sitting In The Spotlights At Night Time - Talking And Playing Marbles. But I Was So Wrapped Up In Boxing Since I Was 12.

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.

I'm Sad Because I Want To Bow Out Of My Race And Leave My Beautiful Identity? Chinese Love Chinese. They Love Their Little Slant Eyed, Pale Brown Skinned Babies. Pakistanis Love Their Culture.jewish People Love Their Culture. A Lot Of Catholics Want To Marry Catholics Because The Want Their Religion To Stay The Same.

God Works Through People. It’s Not Me.

War On Nations Changes Maps. War On Poverty Maps Change.

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.

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

Great Grandfather

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

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.

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

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

What I Will Remember Most About Mr Mandela Is That He Was A Man Whose Heart, Soul And Spirit Could Not Be Contained Or Restrained By Racial And Economic Injustices, Metal Bars Or The Burden Of Hate And Revenge.

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

I Am The Greatest, I Said That Even Before I Knew I Was.

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I Would Like To Say That I Am Not An Apostle Of The Muslim Religion.

Muslim Religion

A Man Who Views The World The Same At Fifty As He Did At Twenty Has Wasted Thirty Years Of His Life.

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

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

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.

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.

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