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If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.
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Stay away from the ropes.
Muhammad Ali
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You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.
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Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
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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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People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.
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I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.
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I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.
Muhammad Ali
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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
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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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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.
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I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.
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Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.
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I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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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 don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me.
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.
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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 came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.
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Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
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A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
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Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.
Muhammad Ali