Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
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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 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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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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There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.
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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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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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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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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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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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Some gems for the greatest of them all.
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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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If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
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Children make you want to start life over.
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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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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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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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I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
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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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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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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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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.