Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
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We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
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Some gems for the greatest of them all.
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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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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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Children make you want to start life over.
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Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
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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 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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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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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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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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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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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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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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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'm most proud of my family.
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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
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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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I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
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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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I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
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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.