Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I'd like to live to a hundred.
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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 have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
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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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During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.
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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'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.
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Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.
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If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.
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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.
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
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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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The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.
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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 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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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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A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.
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I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.
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You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
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This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
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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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Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.