Muhammad Ali Quotes
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People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.
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Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.
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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 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'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
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My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.
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If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
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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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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
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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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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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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 wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.
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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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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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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven.
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I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
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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'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
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Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
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Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag.