Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
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Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night.
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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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The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
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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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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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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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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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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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Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
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Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos.
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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
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I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.
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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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It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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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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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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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?
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I want to be the first black man on the moon.
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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.