Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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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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My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time.
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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 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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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
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That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
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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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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
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I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.
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I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.
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I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.
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The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.