Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.
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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
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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 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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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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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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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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All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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The world’s champ should be pretty like me!
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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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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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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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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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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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Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
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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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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed 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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A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.