Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Only the nose knows Where the nose goes When the door close.
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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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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'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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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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To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
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So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.
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Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
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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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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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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
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I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
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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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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 was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.
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I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
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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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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
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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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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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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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There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.
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There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.