Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
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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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Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.
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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
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I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven.
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Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.
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I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.
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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
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Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.
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If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
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I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
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I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
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Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag.
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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
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I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
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I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
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It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.
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What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.
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I outwit them, and then I outhit them.
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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
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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.