Muhammad Ali Quotes
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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
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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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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'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
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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'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent.
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I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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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 don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
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There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
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That all you got, George?
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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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I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
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I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
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A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.
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I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule.
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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
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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.
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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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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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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.