Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward.
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That computer was made in Alabama.
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Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions.
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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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Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.
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No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.
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My main fight is for freedom and equality.
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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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A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em.
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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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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I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
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The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.
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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
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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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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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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
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I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.
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I'm the fastest thing on two feet.
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I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.
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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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Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.
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What you are thinking is what you are becoming.
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.