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" I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years. "

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" I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists. "

" America is the greatest country in the world. "

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

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

" White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing. "

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

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

" It's not bragging if you can back it up. "

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

" What keeps me going is goals. "

" 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. "

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

" People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing. "

" 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. "

" I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington. "

" It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. "

" I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day. "

" 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. "

" No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters. "

" Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. "

" Superman don't need no seat belt. "

" You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind. "

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