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

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" Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. "

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

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

" I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind. "

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

" 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. "

" My toughest fight was with my first wife. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all. "

" It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. "

" There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. "

" 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. "

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

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