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" My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him. "

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

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

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

" Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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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? "

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