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" Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. "
Muhammad Ali
Matter
Wrong
People
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" Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. "
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" I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' "
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" 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. "
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" It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. "
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" Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons. "
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" My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me. "
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" No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters. "
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" 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. "
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" The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. "
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" Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. "
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" My toughest fight was with my first wife. "
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Fight
First
" It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. "
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" Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. "
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Down
" Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. "
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Yourself
" Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head. "
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" America is the greatest country in the world. "
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America
World
Greatest
" I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world. "
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World
Face
" 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. "
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Sick
Week
Medicine
" If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate. "
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First
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" I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever. "
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" I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back. "
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" I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. "
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Said
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" Old age is just a record of one's whole life. "
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" The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ. "
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Name
World
" The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods? "
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" When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. "
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" It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. "
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People
Fly
" All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them. "
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Black
Master
Names