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" I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. "

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" It's in my blood to be around people while I was training. "

" It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. "

" No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. "

" I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. "

" I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England. "

" Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. "

" 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'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on. "

" Old age is just a record of one's whole life. "

" I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him. "

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

" 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. "

" To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. "

" The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods? "

" 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. "

" My toughest fight was with my first wife. "

" I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill. "

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

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

" It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. "

" Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist. "