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" To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.' "
Muhammad Ali
You
America
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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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" I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have. "
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World
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" Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. "
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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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Free
Me
" It's in my blood to be around people while I was training. "
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While
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" Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor. "
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" 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. "
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Mind
May
" I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest! "
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Smartest
" I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. "
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World
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" I got no quarrel with them Vietcong. "
Muhammad Ali
Them
Quarrel
Got
" It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. "
Muhammad Ali
Climb
Shoe
Mountains
" I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. "
Muhammad Ali
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Peace
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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. "
Muhammad Ali
Road
Lost
Long
" No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room. "
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Knows
Loser
Locker
" All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. "
Muhammad Ali
White
Us
Mixed
" Don't feel sorry for me. "
Muhammad Ali
Sorry
Feel
Me
" 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. "
Muhammad Ali
Love
Rome
Men
" 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. "
Muhammad Ali
Hotel
Night
Dark
" 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. "
Muhammad Ali
Black
Right
Woman
" I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. "
Muhammad Ali
Great
Said
I Am
" 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. "
Muhammad Ali
God
Do The Right Thing
Fight
" Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. "
Muhammad Ali
Map
Poverty
Nations
" When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. "
Muhammad Ali
World
Man
Peace
" I don't have to be what you want me to be. "
Muhammad Ali
You
Want
Me
" It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. "
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Humble
Great
Be Humble
" Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. "
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Friendship
You
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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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Thriller
Will
Gorilla
" 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. "
Muhammad Ali
Name
People
I Am
" I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. "
Muhammad Ali
Love Me
Me
People
" 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. "
Muhammad Ali
Rich
Believe
God