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

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

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

" The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month? "

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

" 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. "

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

" Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner. "

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" 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'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. "

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

" Superman don't need no seat belt. "

" Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again. "

" 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. "

" 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 trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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 should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat. "

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