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Its' hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.
Prejudice comes from being being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
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.
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.
People don't always realise what they had till it's gone. Like
President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like the Beatles, there
will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I
was the Elvis of boxing.
Hating people because of their colour is wrong.
And it doesn't matter which colour does the hating.
It's just plain wrong.
That all you got, George is what Ali whispered in George
Foreman's ear in a clinch before knocking him out
during the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting
challenges, and I believed in myself.
It's not bragging when you can back it up.
Champions aren't made in the gym. Champions are made from
something they have deep inside them; a desire, a dream, a
vision. They have to have last minute stamina, they have to be a
little faster, they have to have the skill and the will.
But the will has to be stronger than the skill.
I am America. I am the part you won't recognise, but get used
to me. Black, confident and cocky - my name, not yours. My
religion, not yours. My goals my own. Get used to me.
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20
has wasted 30 years of his life.
I'm a baaad man!
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