Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

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

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a >.

I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.

When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.

Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.

I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

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