Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
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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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You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
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When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
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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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Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.
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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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When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
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The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed.
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!
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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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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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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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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
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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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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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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 just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.
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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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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.
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At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
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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.