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I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
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I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the millions of dollars and the title, the ministry. So, I chose the ministry. If I was not sincere, then I would have easily went to Vietnam, boxin' exhibitions, and made a couple of cool million.
Muhammad Ali
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Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.
Muhammad Ali -
I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.
Muhammad Ali -
I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.
Muhammad Ali -
Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.
Muhammad Ali -
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.
Muhammad Ali -
My main fight is for freedom and equality.
Muhammad Ali
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali -
We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
Muhammad Ali -
I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.
Muhammad Ali -
My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
Muhammad Ali -
Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
Muhammad Ali -
Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.
Muhammad Ali
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Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.
Muhammad Ali -
Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali -
You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.
Muhammad Ali -
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Muhammad Ali -
You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job.
Muhammad Ali -
I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
Muhammad Ali
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Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.
Muhammad Ali -
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali -
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.
Muhammad Ali -
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.
Muhammad Ali