Muhammad Ali Quotes
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If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.
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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
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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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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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Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
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The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.
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Impossible is nothing.
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I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
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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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God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
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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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That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
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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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I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.
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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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Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
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Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night.
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I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens.
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That all you got, George?
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Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
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Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.