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No Viet Cong ever called me “nigger.”

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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My new style on the ropes is called the “Rope-A-Dope.”

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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[ Description of upcoming fight against Joe Frazier in the Philippines, at a press conference announcing the fight, New York :] A thriller in Manila.

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[ Responding to having his draft status reclassified :]

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[ Description of his boxing strategy :] Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.

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The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
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Impossible is nothing.
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Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

in a television interview

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I got no quarrel with them Vietcong
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