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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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
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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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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.
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The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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People will know you’re serious when you produce.
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Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
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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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My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.
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Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.
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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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Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.
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The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.
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I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
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The world’s champ should be pretty like me!
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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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Stay away from the ropes.
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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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When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
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Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
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I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.