Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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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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No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!
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I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.
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I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me.
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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
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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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To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.
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I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
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I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
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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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Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
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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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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 don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"
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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
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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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In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
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I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven.
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I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.
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I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.
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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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I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.