Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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Stay away from the ropes.
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Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
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I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.
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The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
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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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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
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I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me.
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Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
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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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The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
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I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule.
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The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.
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People will know you’re serious when you produce.
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I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.
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I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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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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You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
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His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
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I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.