Muhammad Ali Quotes
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How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and do things I can't do.The Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, just about everybody can do more than black people and are more respected.
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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.
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Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
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Some gems for the greatest of them all.
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Children make you want to start life over.
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You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
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I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
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I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.
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I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.
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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything.
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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
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Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
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I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.
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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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I'm most proud of my family.
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People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
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I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.