Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
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I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.
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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
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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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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
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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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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
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People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.
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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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I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
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To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.
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My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.
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Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
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No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!
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Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me.
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I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.
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I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens.
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Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.
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The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.