"You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job"
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"Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press."
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"I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!"
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"Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head."
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"Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him."
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"The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man."
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"That computer was made in Alabama"
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"I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected."
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"On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting."
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"They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam."
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"I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be."
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"If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing."
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"Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship."
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"I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw."
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"We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers."
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"It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life."
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"I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers."
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"Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem."
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"Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are."
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"I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out."
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