Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.
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Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people.
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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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We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.
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The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith.
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To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
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If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.
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The show was bad, but I was great.
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I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
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This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.
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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'.
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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
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I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. 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.
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My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
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Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.
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Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
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I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
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I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.
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You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.
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There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.
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What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.
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You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.
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There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.
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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.