I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

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

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Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

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Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves

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I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

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It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.

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