Muhammad Ali Quotes
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My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.
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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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Shut up, I know what I'm doing!
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If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
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How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting.
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Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
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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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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
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When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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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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You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
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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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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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Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
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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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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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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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What keeps me going is goals.
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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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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 was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
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If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.