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My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

I want to be the light heavyweight champion of the world.

You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world.

I don't have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.

In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Listen, anyone in the heavyweight division in the top ten, there is no easy fight. I don't care what you say.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That's what I'll finish doing.