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I Do Need Publicity But Not For What I Do For Good. I Need Publicity For My Book. I Need Publicity For My Fights. I Need Publicity For My Movie But Not For Helping People. Then It Is No Longer Sincere.

-Muhammad Ali

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I Do Need Publicity

Muhammad Ali

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I Do Need Publicity But Not For What I Do For Good. I Need Publicity For My Book. I Need Publicity For My Fights. I Need Publicity For My Movie But Not For Helping People. Then It Is No Longer Sincere.

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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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Silence Is Golden When You Can't Think Of A Good Answer.

All Of Us Are So Mixed. My Great-grandfather Was White.

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Allah Is The Greatest. I'm Just The Greatest Boxer.

I Have To Be Real Cool And Not Savage And Radical, Because It Makes Me Angry When I Think About It When I See The White Boys, Who Are Really The Number One Citizens, The Future Rulers.

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Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt.

People Sold Everything - Their Cars, Their Land For Miles, To Come In And See Me Beat. I Went To The Bank Laughing Every Time.

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If They Can Make Penicillin Out Of Mouldy Bread, They Can Sure Make Something Out Of You.

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I Am The Greatest, I Said That Even Before I Knew I Was.

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I Had To Prove You Could Be A New Kind Of Black Man. I Had To Show The World.

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I Tell You What I Really Fear. I Fear Aeroplanes. When The Flight's All Right And Smooth I'm Still Thinking, 'what If The Engine Blow Up?' 'what If A Fool's Got A Bomb On It?'

I Can Remember A Couple Of Real Fights When I Ran. Because They Were Kinda Dangerous.

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You Made A Big Mistake By Letting Me Come, Because Now I'm Going After Your Job

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It Will Be A Killer, And A Chiller, And A Thriller, When I Get The Gorilla In Manila.

I Would Like To Say That I Am Not An Apostle Of The Muslim Religion.

Muslim Religion

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.

Santa Claus Was White And Everything Bad Was Black. The Little Ugly Duckling Was The Black Duck, And The Black Cat Was The Bad Luck. And If I Threaten You, I'm Going To Blackmail You.i Said, 'momma, Why Don't They Call It 'whitemail'? They Lie Too.'

He Who Is Not Courageous Enough To Take Risks Will Accomplish Nothing In Life.

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.

Black And White

I'm Too Fast. I'm Too Smart. I'm Too Pretty.

Some Gems For The Greatest Of Them All

I Can Love Freedom And The Flesh And Blood Of My People Moreso Than I Do The Money.

I'd Like To Say That Muslims Are Never In Violence With White People. It's The Black Man Who Love You. See, You Don't Let Him In Your Toilet, You Don't Let Him In Your Restroom, You Don't Let Him Marry Your Daughter, You Gotta Fight. So, We're Not Gonna Be Botherin' You, You Understand. Muslims Don't Come In, We Don't Have No Trouble With You. It's Just The Integrator.

Why Are They Picking On Boxing? It's Because The Black Men Are So Superior In Boxing That They Want To Stop It. Well, The Black Man's So Hungry He's Got To Fight.

What's Really Hurting Me, The Name Islam Is Involved, And Muslim Is Involved And Causing Trouble And Starting Hate And Violence. ... Islam Is Not A Killer Religion. ... Islam Means Peace, I Couldn't Just Sit Home And Watch People Label Muslims As The Reason For This Problem.

We Black People, As A Whole, Are At War We'll Say With The White Power Structure. Not Physically, But We Have Definite Protests To Win The Battle.

The Prophet Introduced A System Of Prayer In That It Was Interwoven Into Man's Daily Work: A Prayer In The Morning When He Arose From His Bed; A Prayer At Lunch Time, As An Indication That If His Body Needed A Diet, So Did His Spirit; A Prayer In The Afternoon When He Retired From His Daily Work; A Prayer At Sunset And A Prayer When Going To Bed.

Boxing's A Rough Sport. After Every Fight I Rush To The Mirror To Make Sure I'm Presentable.

You Don't Want No Pie In The Sky When You Die, You Want Something Here On The Ground While You're Still Around.

I Think We're All Brothers - That's The Truth. But The Press Gave Us The Name Black Muslims To Cut Us Off From The Others.

We Are Stone Enemies When The Bell Rings

I Knew I Had Him In The First Round. Almighty God Was With Me. I Want Everyone To Bear Witness, I Am The Greatest! I'm The Greatest Thing That Ever Lived. I Don't Have A Mark On My Face, And I Upset Sonny Liston, And I Just Turned Twenty-two Years Old. I Must Be The Greatest. I Showed The World. I Talk To God Everyday. I Know The Real God. I Shook Up The World, I'm The King Of The World. You Must Listen To Me. I Am The Greatest! I Can't Be Beat!

Who's Gonna Dare To Be Great?

Dare To Be Great

I Try Not To Speak About All The Charities And People I Help, Because I Believe We Can Only Be Truly Generous When We Expect Nothing In Return.

Be Loud, Be Pretty And Keep Their Black-hatin' Asses In Their Chairs

Boxing Is Just To Introduce Me To The Struggle. Like, When I Speak I Draw People In The States To Teach Them Various Things Or To Give Them Dignity, Pride And Self-help. I Have To Help The Dope And Prostitution Problem.

There's Nothing Stressful About Turning 50 Except People Reminding You About It.

I'll Destroy You. I Am The Master Of Disaster.

Old Age Is Just A Record Of One's Whole Life.

No Boxer In The History Of Boxing Has Had Parkinson's. There's No Injury In My Brain That Suggests That The Illness Came From Boxing.

The Bull Is Stronger, But The Matador Is Smarter.

The Only Limitations One Has, Are The Ones They Place On Themselves

I Wasn't Thinking Of Being The Greatest. But I Knew I Had A Chance.

All Through My Life, I Have Been Tested. My Will Has Been Tested, My Courage Has Been Tested, My Strength Has Been Tested. Now My Patience And Endurance Are Being Tested.

I'll Tell You How I'd Like To Be Remembered: As A Black Man Who Won The Heavyweight Title - Who Has Humorous And Who Never Looked Down On Those Who Looked Up To Him - A Man Who Stood For Freedom, Justice And Equality - And I Wouldn't Even Mind If Folks Forgot How Pretty I Was.

If You Haven't Learned The Meaning Of Friendship, You Really Haven't Learned Anything.

It's Impossible For 30 Million Black People To Be Violent Against 170 Million - We Need A Mental Revolution, Unity In Coming Together, And Not Physical.

I Would Like To Say Boxing Cannot Compared With War. We Have Gloves On, We Have Cushions, We Have Referees, We Have Judges, We Have Ambulances There, The Intention Not To Kill, We Don't Have Steel There, We Don't Have Bullets, We Don't Kill Momma, Kill Daddy, Kill Baby, Our Intention Is A Sport, And We're Not There To Kill, So Boxing Cannot Be Compared In No Way With Machineguns And Bombs And Everything That Used.

They Used To Draw Cartoons Of Jews In Germany. Later They Started Killing Them In The Holocaust.

I Need To Get Everything Straight. I'm Not Involved In A Power Struggle Between Black And White.

Black And White

I Always Asked My Mother, I Said, 'momma, How Come Is Everything White?' I Said, 'why Is Jesus White With Blond Hair And Blue Eyes? Why Is The Lord's Supper All White Men? Angels Are White, The Pope, Mary, And Even The Angels.' I Said, 'mother, When We Die, Do We Go To Heaven?' She Said, 'naturally We Go To Heaven.' I Said, 'well, What Happened To All The Black Angels?'

I'm Just Hoping That People Understand That Islam Is Peace And Not Violence.

Hating People Because Of Their Color Is Wrong. And It Doesn't Matter Which Color Does The Hating. It's Just Plain Wrong.

What Keeps Me Going Is Goals.

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.

Once We Realize We Are All Members Of Humanity, We Will Want To Compete In The Spirit Of Love

The World’s Champ Should Be Pretty Like Me!

Only Last Week I Murdered A Rock, Injured A Stone And Hospitalized A Brick.

I'll Leave You With One That I Have Hanging On My Office Wall, Compliments Of Nike: Impossible Is Nothing.

America Don't Have No Future! America's Going To Be Destroyed! Allah's Going To Divinely Chastise America! Violence, Crimes, Earthquakes - There's Gonna Be All Kinds Of Trouble. America's Going To Pay For All Its Lynchings And Killings Of Slaves And What It's Done To Black People.

I've Got It! I've Got It! It'll Make Front-page Headlines Around The World. You Can Have Me Kidnapped, And Then A Couple Of Days Before The Fight I'll Show Up Again

I Am Grateful For All My Victories, But I Am Especially Grateful For My Losses, Because They Only Made Me Work Harder.

I Ain't Got No Quarrel With Them Viet Cong.

If We Were Second Class Citizens We'd Be Driving Old Cadillacs And Living Good. If We Were First Class We'd Be Driving A Rolls Royce.

I Was Saying "i'm The Greatest" Long Before I Believed It.

I Just Give Lip Service To Being The Greatest. He Was The Greatest.

We Believe That The Honorable Elijah Mohammed Is The Apostle Of Allah, God, But I'm Only A Helper And A Minister Of His.

I Always Liked To Chase The Girls. Parkinson's Stops All That. Now I Might Have A Chance To Go To Heaven.

If We Continue To Think And Live As If We Belong Only To Different Cultures And Different Religions, With Separate Missions And Goals, We Will Always Be In Self-defeating Competition With Each Other. Once We Realize We Are All Members Of Humanity, We Will Want To Compete In The Spirit Of Love.

Do Not Be Ashamed To Give A Little; For To Deceive Is To Give Still Less.

Boxing Is A Lot Of White Men Watching Two Black Men Beat Each Other Up.

Life Is Like A Ship. There's People Dancing On A Ship.there's A Lot Of Money On The Ship, But I Cannot Integrate On The Ship Or Get Equality On The Ship.and I Never Could. I'm Just In The Galley Working And I Never Could Get Up To See The Captain Of The Ship.

I Believe In The Religion Of Islam. I Believe In Allah And Peace.

This Relationship Will Help Guarantee That, For Generations To Come, People Of All Nations Will Understand My Beliefs And My Purpose

Guarantees That

God Will Not Place A Burden On A Man's Shoulders Knowing That He Cannot Carry It.

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