Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.
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The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
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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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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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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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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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I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.
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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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They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
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I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
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If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
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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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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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When my title was taken away boxing died.
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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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 believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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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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I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.
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We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.
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All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
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I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.