Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.
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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'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
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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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I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
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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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What keeps me going is goals.
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No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!
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His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
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Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
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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'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
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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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When my title was taken away boxing died.
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There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.
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I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.
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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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Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me.
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The will must be stronger than the skill.
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You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
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When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
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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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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.