Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again.
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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 figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
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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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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.
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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.
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
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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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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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Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
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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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If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.
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No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
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I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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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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My definition of evil is unfriendliness.
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I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
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Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.
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I'm most proud of my family.