“I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written...”
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“I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written...”
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“The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?”
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“I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.”
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“I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.”
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“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”
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“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
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“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”
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“There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”
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“I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”
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“I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.”
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“To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'”
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“People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.”
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“I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”
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“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
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“I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking lik...”
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“I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.”
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“Superman don't need no seat belt.”
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“I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.”
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“Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.”
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“All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.”
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