Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!
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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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God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.
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No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
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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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I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.
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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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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
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Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.
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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time.
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.
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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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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.
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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
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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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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
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It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
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We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.