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I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

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My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.

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If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.

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I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

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Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

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I did not disregard my culture, if I did, it was the white American culture, and I accepted my true culture, when I accepted Mohammed Ali, because this is a black name, Islam is the black man's religion, and so I would like to say, that I would like to clarify that point that I reclaimed my real culture, and that's being a black man and wearing a black name with a black body, and not a white name, so I would never say that I didn't disown my culture.

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A man with no imaginations has no wings.

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Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

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The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

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You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

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I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.

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I didn't deny nothing I believe. I'm still the same everything.

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It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

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I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.

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The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

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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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Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.

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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

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That all you got, George?

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