Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.
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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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Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.
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Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
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Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.
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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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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
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At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
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I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me.
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Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.
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The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.
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Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
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I didn't deny nothing I believe. I'm still the same everything.
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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'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.
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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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I shook up the world.
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So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
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Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.
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Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.
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I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
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I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule.
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I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.