Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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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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Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
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I shook up the world.
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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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Who's gonna dare to be great?
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I didn't deny nothing I believe. I'm still the same everything.
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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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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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The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.
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I want to be the first black man on the moon.
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I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
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I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
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I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.
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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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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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If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
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Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
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Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.
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Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
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I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.
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I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.
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I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.