"Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good."
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"Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'."
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"People will know you’re serious when you produce."
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"Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less."
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"The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet."
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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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"I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington."
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"No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing."
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"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
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"Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty."
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"There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it."
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"I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle."
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"Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you."
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"War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change."
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"Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug."
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"No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way."
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"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."
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"My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality."
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"That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time."
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"When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock"
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