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" I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world. "

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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. "

" Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. "

" 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've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever. "

" Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. "

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" 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. "

" Superman don't need no seat belt. "

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

" I got no quarrel with them Vietcong. "

" 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'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower. "

" Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. "

" At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. "

" 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. "

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

" My principles are more important than the money or my title. "

" 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. "

" If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. "

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

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

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

" I don't have to be what you want me to be. "

" Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons. "