Muhammad Ali Quotes

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

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Float like a butterfly,
Sting like a bee!
Rumble young man! Rumble!
Waa!

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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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It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.

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To make America the greatest is my goal,
So I beat the Russians, and I beat the Pole,
and for the USA won the medal of gold.
Italians said: "You're Greater than the Cassius of old."
We like your name, we like your game,
So make Rome your home if you will.
I said I appreciate your kind hospitality,
But the USA is my country still,
'Cause they're waiting to welcome me in Louisville.

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Nobody heard of Vietnam until there was a war. Nobody heard of Korea until there was a war. Nobody heard of Zaire until I fought there, and paying me is a whole lot cheaper than fighting a war.

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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

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I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

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Clay was my slave name. Ali means Most High, but Clay means dirt with mixed ingredients.

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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

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At home I'm a nice guy; but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. If you're nice guy people trample on you. They are always at you for something.

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I think Terrell will catch hell at the sound of the bell.
He's going around saying that he's a championship-fighter,
but when he meets me he fall 20 pound lighter.
He thinks that he's the real heavy weight champ
but when he meets me, he'll just be a tramp
Now I'm not sayin' just to be funny, but I'm fightin' Ernie because he needs the money.

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How could they say that my religion, Islam, was a "race hate" religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

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I am the man this poem's about,
I'll be champ of the world, there isn't a doubt.
Here I predict Mr. Liston's dismemberment,
I'll hit him so hard; he'll wonder where October and November went.
When I say two, there's never a third,
Standin against me is completely absurd.
When Cassius says a mouse can outrun a horse,
Don't ask how; put your money where your mouse is!
I AM THE GREATEST!

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I just wish people would love everybody else the way that they love me. It would be a better world.

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Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.

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In the jungle, lions are with lions and tigers with tigers, and redbirds stay with redbirds and bluebirds with bluebirds. That's human nature, too, to be with your own kind. I don't want to go where I'm not wanted.

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It's gonna be a thrilla, a chilla, and a killa,
When I get the gorilla in Manila.

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Friendship is a priceless gift that cannot be bought nor sold, but its value is far greater than a mountain made of gold; for gold is cold & lifeless - it can neither see nor hear, in time of trouble its powerless to cheer — it has no ears to listen, no heart to understand, it cannot bring you comfort or reach out a helping hand. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if sends not diamonds, pearls or riches but the love of real true friends.

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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round

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Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

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Watching George come back to win the title got me all excited. Made me want to come back. But then the next morning came, and it was time to start running. I lay back in bed and said, "That's okay, I'm still the Greatest."

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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

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If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
Comment prior to the "Rumble in the Jungle" (30 October 1974)

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I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

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I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. 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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Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.

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Archie's been living off the fat of the land. I'm here to give him his pension plan. When you come to the fight don't block the door. 'Cause you'll all go home after round four.

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