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I Hated The Sight

Muhammad Ali

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I Hated The Sight On Tv Of Big, Clumsy, Lumbering Heavyweights Plodding, Stalking Each Other Like Two Frankenstein Monsters, Clinging, Slugging Toe To Toe. I Knew I Could Do It Better ... Circle, Dance, Shuffle, Hit And Move ... Make An Art Out Of It.

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If Some Black Man Go Out And Start Something, A Riot Or Something Or, I'm Not Going To Jump In It And Get Killed Because He's Gone Out And Started Something I Don't Believe In What He's Fighting For Or His Approach.

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I Didn't Even Need America, I Was So Popular Outside The Country, Until The Prosecutin' Attorney Came From Washington, And Said, Judge, We Cannot Let This Man Go To Japan And Fight, Because They Are Anti-american.now, If I Want To Leave The Country, I Know How To Leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I Really Want To Leave. That's Not The Intention. The Intention Is To Stop Me From Makin' A Livin'. To Punish Me.

Women Are The Field That Produces Our Nation. And If You Can't Protect Your Women, You Can't Protect Your Nation.

Ain't No Reason For Me To Kill Nobody In The Ring, Unless They Deserve It.

I've Never Really Resented Hard Work Because I've Always Liked It. Up Every Morning For Roadwork. Going To The Gymnasium Every Day At 12 O'clock. I Never Change My Pattern.

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

Only The Nose Knows Where The Nose Goes When The Door Close.

Love Is The Net Where Hearts Are Caught Like Fish.

Politicians Are Always Saying That They Are In Support Of Iraqi Citizens And Now They Are Increasing The Price Of Petrol. We Were Oppressed For 35 Years. We Are Like A Sick Patient Who Is In Need Of Care, And They Are Increasing Prices

"i'm The Greatest Thing That Ever Lived! I'm The King Of The World! I'm A Bad Man. I'm The Prettiest Thing That Ever Lived. I Shook Up The World! I Want Justice..."

I Was Always At The Gymnasium Every Day At Six O'clock After School. In The Mornings I Would Run, Looking Forward To Future Golden Gloves And Olympic Tournaments.

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.

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.

If I Could Meet Anybody? The Prophet Muhammad.

Prophet Muhammad

The Word Had Spread And People Were Piling Around Us. But Then Very Suddenly, Sonny Liston Froze Me With That Look Of His. He Said Real Quiet, 'let's Go On Over Here.' And He Led The Way To A Table And The People Hung Back. I Ain't Going To Lie. This Was The Only Time Since I Have Known Sonny Liston That He Really Scared Me.

There Ain't No Such Thing As Black Muslims. That's How They Tried To Cut Off All My Brothers In The Rest Of The World And Divide Us In America And Make Other Muslims Think That We Are Not With Them.we Are All The Same. I Recognise Them And They Recognise Me. I'm Invited To All Of Their Homes All Over The World And I'm Invited To Muslim Countries.

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

During My Boxing Career, You Did Not See The Real Muhammad Ali. You Just Saw A Little Boxing And A Little Showmanship. It Was After I Retired From Boxing That My True Work Began.

I'm Sure No Intelligent White Person, In His Or Her Right White Mind, Want Black Men And Women Marrying Their White Sons And Daughters And In Return Introducing Their Grandchildren To Half Brown, Kinky Haired Black People.

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

I'm Going To, Not I'm Gonna. Talk Intelligent

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I Don't Have To Be What You Want Me To Be.

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If You Want To Be Equal With Me, You Can Get Your Own Rolls-royce, Your Own House And Your Own Million Dollars.

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.

I'm Gonna Have To Be Killed Before I Lose, And I Ain't Going To Die Easy.

It's Just A Job. Grass Grows, Birds Fly, Waves Pound The Sand. I Beat People Up.

Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee. The Hands Can't Hit What The Eyes Can't See.

You May Talk About Sweden, You May Talk About Rome, But Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's Home. A Lot Of People Said That Floyd Couldn't Fight, But You Should Have Seen Him On The Comeback Night.

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

Champions Come And Go, But To Be Legendary You Got To Have Heart, More Heart Than The Next Man, More Than Anyone In The World.

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We Are Stone Enemies When The Bell Rings

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.

Black People All Are Fightin' You All For Freedom, Justice And Equality. One Believes That Intermarriage Is Gonna Solve It, And 200 Years From Now We All Will Be A Beautiful Cream Color. He Really Believes It. One Believe That Gittin' Some Rifles And Shootin' Up The Country Is Gonna Solve It, Another Believes That Education. One Day We'll Be The President. One Believe That We Gotta Git Into The White Man's Pockets And Get All The Money.

We're Not Trying To Take Power Away Or Rule Anybody - We're Just Trying To Get Up From Under The Rulers.

You Dont Lose If You Get Knocked Down; You Lose If You Stay Down.

A Man With No Imaginations Has No Wings.

When You Saw Me In The Boxing Ring Fighting, It Wasn't Just So I Could Beat My Opponent. My Fighting Had A Purpose. I Had To Be Successful In Order To Get People To Listen To The Things I Had To Say.

We Followed The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, Who Is The Boss. And We Don't Waste A Lot Of Time Arguin' About A Dead Black Man, Malcolm X, When The Whites Are Our Common Enemies.

Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee.

I Hospitalized A Rock, Killed A Brick...i'm So Bad I Make Medicine Sick!

There Are More Pleasant Things To Do Than Beat Up People.

I Outwit Them, And Then I Outhit Them

Howard Cosell Was Gonna Be A Boxer When He Was A Kid Only They Couldn't Find A Mouthpiece Big Enough.

Put Yourself Out On A Limb, Sucka, Like Me!

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