“A rooster crows only when it sees the light.
Put him in the dark and he'll never crow.
I have seen the light and I'm crowing.”
“Age is whatever you think it is.
You are as old as you think you are”
All black Americans have slave names.
They have white names;
names that the slave master has given to them.
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
“All through my life, I have been tested.
My will has been tested,
my courage has been tested,
my strength has been tested.
Now my patience and endurance are being tested.”
“Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer”
Allah's the Arabic term for God.
Stand up for God, fight for God,
work for God and do the right thing,
and go the right way,
things will end up in your corner.
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me.
In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
Archie's been living off the fat of the land.
I'm here to give him his pension plan.
At home I am a nice guy:
but I don't want the world to know.
Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Cassius Clay is a name
that white people gave to my slave master.
Now that I am free,
that I don't belong anymore to anyone,
that I'm not a slave anymore,
I gave back their white name,
and I chose a beautiful African one.
“Champions aren't made in gyms.
Champions are made from something
they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
They have to have the skill, and the will.
But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
“Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee”
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.”
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything.
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
It's not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything.”
'Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight.
“Go to College, Stay in school,
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread,
they can sure make something out of you.”
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.
“Hating people because of their color is wrong.
And it doesn't matter which color does the hating.
It's just plain wrong.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”
"He's too ugly to be the champ!"
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