Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
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I don't look like no kiwi bird.
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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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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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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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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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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They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.
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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
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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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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 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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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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I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
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My definition of evil is unfriendliness.
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Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
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Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
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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 was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
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The sun is always shining someplace.
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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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Everything I got comes from Elijah Mohammed. He taught me who I was, he made me proud, he made me fearless, he made me love my own, I’ve turned down millions to keep from selling out my people, the beautiful name Mohammed Ali. And white people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of his in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.White people make me thinkin' that I'm smart, and as soon as I leave Elijah you can get me. But as long as I stay with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm safe.