Muhammad Ali Quotes
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People will know you’re serious when you produce.
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If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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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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God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.
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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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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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Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
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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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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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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'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
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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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I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.
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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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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 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.
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.
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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
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I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.
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A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
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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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I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me.
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Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.