Muhammad Ali Quotes
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A man with no imaginations has no wings.
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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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Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
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Who's gonna dare to be great?
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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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Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
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War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.
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You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job.
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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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If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
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Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs.
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Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.
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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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I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
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I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
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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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I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
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When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock.
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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 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 live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.
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I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.