Muhammad Ali Quotes
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They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.
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It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight.
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I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.
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Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.
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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
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I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
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I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!
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Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.
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I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.
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I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected.
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Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.
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If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
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I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.
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On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.
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To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach.
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There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like gladiator in the ring.
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If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
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I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
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Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.