Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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.
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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 drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
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I'm most proud of my family.
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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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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
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They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.
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Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
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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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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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Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
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There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
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The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.
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The sun is always shining someplace.
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If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.
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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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I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
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God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
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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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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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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 would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.