Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
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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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There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.
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You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.
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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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Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
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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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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
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A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em.
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I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
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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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His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
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My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.
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People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
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I believe in the holy Koran. It says we declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims and do not take part in wars, or in no way fashion or form take the lives of humans unless it's a holy war declared by God himself.
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During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.
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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
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That computer was made in Alabama.
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Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.
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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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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
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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.