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" A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. "

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" Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. "

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" I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. "

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" I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. "

" Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. "

" Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's. "

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" Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. "

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" Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head. "

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" A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. "

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" The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. "

" If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge. "