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" I shook up the world, I shook up the world. "

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

" Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. "

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" My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me. "

" I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick. "

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

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

" There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back. "

" 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. "

" My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am. "

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

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" I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. "

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

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

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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. "

" My toughest fight was with my first wife. "

" I got no quarrel with them Vietcong. "