Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent.
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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.
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It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
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Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything.
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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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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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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
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Children make you want to start life over.
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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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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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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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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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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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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 figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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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 try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
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I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history.
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There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.
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Some gems for the greatest of them all.
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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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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.