Muhammad Ali Quotes
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What keeps me going is goals.
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At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
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What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
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If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
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I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
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If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
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Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
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White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
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Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
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I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
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If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
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I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.
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Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.
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The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.
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Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.
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Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.
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I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.