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

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

" I shook up the world, I shook up the world. "

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

" If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate. "

" I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them. "

" My toughest fight was with my first wife. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing. "

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

" Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. "

" 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? "

" I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest! "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I got no quarrel with them Vietcong. "

" Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back. "

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