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• "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
• ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
• "Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."
• "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
• "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
• "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
• "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
• "Champions aren't made in gyms. 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 must be stronger than the skill."
• "Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up."
• "A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing."