Muhammad Ali Quotes
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The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.
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I don't look like no kiwi bird.
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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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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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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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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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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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We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.
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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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If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.
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I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
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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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Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
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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'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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I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
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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 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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Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
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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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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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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!