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" All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. "

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" I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky. "

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" The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters. "

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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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" I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. "

" The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ. "

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

" He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. "

" Don't feel sorry for me. "

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" Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life. "

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" I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world. "

" I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. "

" When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. "

" 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. "

" I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. "