Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
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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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A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.
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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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My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.
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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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I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. 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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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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I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.
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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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Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
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I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!
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My definition of evil is unfriendliness.
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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.
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There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.
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God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
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My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.
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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 don't look like no kiwi bird.
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Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.
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You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.
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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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Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.