Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
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Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
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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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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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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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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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Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.
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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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I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.
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Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.
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Some gems for the greatest of them all.
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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 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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I'm most proud of my family.
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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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When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
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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 had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
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I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.
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God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
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All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
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The sun is always shining someplace.
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God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.
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I shook up the world.