Muhammad Ali Quotes
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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
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I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
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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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Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.
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I'd like to live to a hundred.
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Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.
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Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.
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Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.
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The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
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I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.
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I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
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The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history.
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True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.
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I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.
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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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I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
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Children make you want to start life over.
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You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.