Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
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I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!
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Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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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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Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.
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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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True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.
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My definition of evil is unfriendliness.
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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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We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
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Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
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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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That computer was made in Alabama.
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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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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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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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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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I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.
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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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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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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
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I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
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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.