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All Quotes by author - Muhammad Ali

" Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. "

" Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again. "

" Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner. "

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" All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them. "

" All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. "

" A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. "

" America is the greatest country in the world. "

" 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. "

" A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. "

" At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. "

" Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. "

" Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. "

" Don't feel sorry for me. "

" Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England. "

" Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. "

" Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life. "

" Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. "

" God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did. "

" Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist. "

" Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. "

" He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. "

" 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. "

" I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others. "

" I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. "

" I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. "

" I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. "

" I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK. "

" I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day. "

" I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick. "

" I don't have to be what you want me to be. "

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