Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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 did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.
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Some gems for the greatest of them all.
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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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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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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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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 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'm most proud of my family.
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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
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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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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
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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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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.
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I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.
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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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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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The sun is always shining someplace.
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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.