Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
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I’m gonna show you how great I am.
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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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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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He's too ugly to be the champ!
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Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.
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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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When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
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You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.
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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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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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It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.
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Most people don't pray until they're in trouble. When people need help they pray a lot. But after they get what they want, they slow down. If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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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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I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
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When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.
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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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Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.
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Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.
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Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.