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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Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times.
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I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.
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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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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 show was bad, but I was great.
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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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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 so mean I make medicine sick!
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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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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
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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 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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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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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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Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
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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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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.
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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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So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.