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" If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. "

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

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

" Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters. "

" A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. "

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

" It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. "

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

" No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room. "

" Superman don't need no seat belt. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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