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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
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My toughest opponent has always been me.
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I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.
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Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.
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Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
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I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.
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It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.
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I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.
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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.
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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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.
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Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
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My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time.
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I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.
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Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.