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

Service To Others

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" What keeps me going is goals. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ. "

" Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. "

" Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. "

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

" 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. "

" I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. "

" Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.' "

" I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill. "

" 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'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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