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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
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All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
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Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
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The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
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I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.
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Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
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How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting.
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I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.
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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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The world’s champ should be pretty like me!
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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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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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I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.
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It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
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I'm most proud of my family.
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Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.
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When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
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Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
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I’m gonna show you how great I am.
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Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.
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Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right.