Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
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What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.
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I outwit them, and then I outhit them.
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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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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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The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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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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Stay away from the ropes.
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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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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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I want to be the first black man on the moon.
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God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.
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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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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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All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
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The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
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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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I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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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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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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What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.
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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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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.