Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
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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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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.
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I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. 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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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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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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My toughest opponent has always been me.
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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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How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting.
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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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Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
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I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
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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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A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
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The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
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Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
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Stay away from the ropes.
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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 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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All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.