Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
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The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
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I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
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Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education.
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A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em.
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I'm the fastest thing on two feet.
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I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
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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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Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
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I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.
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Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.
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Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.
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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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The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?
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The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.
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Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs.
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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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Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
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I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.
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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.
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It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.