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"When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did."
"There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking."
"If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge."
"Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs"
"Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now."
"This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it."
"Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite."
"Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin."
"Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything."
"Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough."
"The show was bad, but I was great"
"I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age."
"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."
"People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time."
"I'm pretty as a girl."
"Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale."
"If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!"
"My definition of evil is unfriendliness."
"I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here."
"I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!"