Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!
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Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.
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I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.
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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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I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason.
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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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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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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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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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I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
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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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I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.
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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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I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
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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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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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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
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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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I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.