Muhammad Ali Quotes
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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
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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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Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
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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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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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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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The world’s champ should be pretty like me!
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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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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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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
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Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!
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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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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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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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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
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A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
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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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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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Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.
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The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
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The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.
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A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.