Muhammad Ali Quotes
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If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.
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All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
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There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
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I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
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It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
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Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
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You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.
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Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.
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I'm most proud of my family.
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Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
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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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The sun is always shining someplace.
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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
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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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Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos.
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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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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
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Everything I got comes from Elijah Mohammed. He taught me who I was, he made me proud, he made me fearless, he made me love my own, I’ve turned down millions to keep from selling out my people, the beautiful name Mohammed Ali. And white people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of his in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.White people make me thinkin' that I'm smart, and as soon as I leave Elijah you can get me. But as long as I stay with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm safe.
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I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.
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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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Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
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Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.
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Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right.