Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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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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Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
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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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Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
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I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.
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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
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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 would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
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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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I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
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The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
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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.
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Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.
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Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
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A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
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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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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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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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My toughest opponent has always been me.