Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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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 predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history.
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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
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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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When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
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Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.
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The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
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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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No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
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Children make you want to start life over.
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
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You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
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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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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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God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
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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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Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.
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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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For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.
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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 didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.