Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
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Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.
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The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
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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 can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
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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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Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.
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I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.
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I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.
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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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What you are thinking is what you are becoming.
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I don't look like no kiwi bird.
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I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
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You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.
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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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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
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God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
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I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.
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The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
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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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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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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.