Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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 outwit them, and then I outhit them.
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God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.
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I want to be the first black man on the moon.
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The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
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A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
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Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
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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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They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
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I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.
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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 roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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Stay away from the ropes.
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For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
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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'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'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.
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The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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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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I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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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.