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" I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. "

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" 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? "

" 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. "

" I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.' "

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

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

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" It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. "

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

" 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. "

" Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. "

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

" 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. "

" There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. "

" 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 got no quarrel with them Vietcong. "

" Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day. "

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

" Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. "

" 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. "

" America is the greatest country in the world. "

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

" Superman don't need no seat belt. "

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" 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. "