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I'm Not Going To Be That Kind Of A Fighter. I'm Going To Dance And Be Pretty. I'm Just Going To Win On Points.and If I Hurt My Man I'm Going To Let Him Go And I'm Not Going To Kill Him Just Because Somebody's Watching.

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I'm Not Going To Be That Kind Of A Fighter. I'm Going To Dance And Be Pretty. I'm Just Going To Win On Points.and If I Hurt My Man I'm Going To Let Him Go And I'm Not Going To Kill Him Just Because Somebody's Watching.

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When You Come To The Fight Don't Block The Halls And Don't Block The Door, For Y'all May Go Home After Round Four.

I'm The King Of The World, I Am The Greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I Shook Up The World, I Am The Greatest, I'm King Of The World, I'm Pretty, I'm Pretty, I'm A Baaaad Man, You Heard Me I'm A Baaad Man, Archie Moore Fell In Four, Liston Wanted Me More, So Since He's So Great, I'm A Make Him Fall In Eight, I'm A Baaad Man, I'm King Of The World! I'm 22 Years Old And Ain't Gotta Mark On My Face, I'm Pretty, I Easily Survived Six Rounds With That Ugly Bear, Because I Am The Greatest.

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I Love My People And I Don't Hate Nobody And It Keeps Me Out Of Trouble.

I'm The Greatest, But Only In Relation To Fighting.

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A Man With No Imaginations Has No Wings.

If The White Man Ain't The Devil, He's Been Aiming At The History Of The Americans.

The Man Who Will Whip Me Will Be Fast, Strong And Hasn't Been Born Yet.

Whites Have Always Put One Against Another And Now They Have A Dead Man Who Was Nothin' But A, He Admitted It Himself, Malcolm X, Was A Tramp Or Had White Women Sellin' Their Body For Him, He Was Nothin' Until The Honorable Elijah Mohammed Made Him Great, Made Him Great, Taught Him, Even His Name X Come From Elijah.

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.

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We Are Not Black Muslims We Are Muslims. You See, You Have Catholics. You Have Chinese Catholics, You Have Indian Catholics, You Have Black Catholics And White Catholics. But I'm Sure You Don't Ask A Man Are You A White Catholic? Are You A Chinese Are You A Yellow Catholic, A Red Catholic, Or A White Catholic? He's Just A Catholic. We Have Black Muslims, We Have Brown Muslims, We Have Red Muslims, We Have Yellow Muslims, We Have Even White Complected Muslims, So I'd Like To Clear That Point, This Is A Press Word, Black Muslims.

I Live. I Travel. I Eat. I Pray. These Are The Things I Do. I'd Rather Be In My Condition Than Be A Man With Four Children In A Four-bedroom House, Working Hard Every Day To Pay For His House, Taking His Children To School.

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My Way Of Joking Is To Tell The Truth. That's The Funniest Joke In The World.

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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.

I Outwit Them, And Then I Outhit Them

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.

I Just Can't See Myself With A Man On The Ropes And Just To Prove How Bad I Am - And I See In His Eyes, His Head, He's Hopeless - And I'm Just Deliberately Hitting. I Don't Do That.

There Were So Many Fellows Ranked Over Me I Couldn't Just Whoop Them All. I Had To Out-shadow Them By Talking.

I Started Out Making $4 For My First Fight, But Imagine Paying $25,000 For A Painting...look At Me!

That All You Got, George?

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.

But When I Looked At A Lot Of The Questions They Had On Them Army Tests, I Just Didn't Know The Answers. I Don't Even Know How To Start After Finding The Answers. That's All.

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

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.

The World’s Champ Should Be Pretty Like Me!

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

I Tried To Get Into The Mind Of My Opponent And Psyche Him Out.

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

Wisdom Is Knowing When You Can't Be Wise.

Rest But Never Quit. Even The Sun Has A Sinking Spell Each Evening. But It Always Rises The Next Morning. At Sunrise, Every Soul Is Born Again.

My Only Fault Is That I Don't Realize How Great I Really Am.

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.

Don't Ever Squeeze A Fighter's Hand, Man. You're Doing Good Just To Lay Your Eyes On Me

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I Was Always Curious. And I Always Wondered Why I Had To Die To Go To Heaven.

If You Love God, Tear Out Your Heart's Love Of The World.

The Sun Is Always Shining Someplace.

My Main Fight Is For Freedom And Equality.

Freedom And Equality

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.

When People Are Forced To Interact To Survive, Their Prejudices Diminish.

Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee.

I'm Most Proud Of My Family.

Now, If I Even Say The Wrong Thing I Make The News.

I Had My Style Of Moving And Dancing And Whatever I Do. What You Have To Do, Is Take All The Fighters You Want And Me And Rank Me Where You Want. I Can't Tell You.

That Man Was Beautiful. Timing, Speed, Reflexes, Rhythm, His Body, Everything Was Beautiful. And To Me, Still, I Would Say Pound For Pound... I'd Say I'm The Greatest Heavyweight Of All Time, But Pound For Pound, I Still Say Sugar Ray Robinson Was The Greatest Of All Time.

I Can't Believe Some Of The Things I Did.can't Believe It. Sayin' I Was The Greatest And The Beautifulist And I Was Gonna Whup This Guy And That Guy, Sayin' I'm Pretty, I Can't Be Beat.

Whatever The Challenge Was, However Unattainable The Goal May Have Seemed, I Never Let Anyone Talk Me Out Of Believing In Myself.

I Am An Ordinary Man Who Worked Hard To Develop The Talent I Was Given.

I Want Fifteen Referees At This Fight…because There Ain’t No One Man Who Can Keep Up With The Pace I’m Gonna Set Except Me

Christians Are My Brothers, Hindus Are My Brothers, All Of Them Are My Brothers. We Just Think Different And Believe Different.

Boxing Is A Stepping Stone Just To Introduce Me To The Audience. If I Was Still In Louisville, Kentucky And Never Was A Boxer I Still Might Get Killed Next Week In Some Kind Of Freedom Struggle And You'd Ever Hear The News.

Your Body Is Sacred. You’re Far More Precious Than Diamonds And Pearls, And You Should Be Covered Too.

There Are Two Things That Are Hard To Hit And See. That's A Spooky Ghost And Muhammad Ali.

Not To Commit Faults Counts For More Than To Do Good.

I Should Be A Postage Stamp. That’s The Only Way I’ll Ever Get Licked!

Get Up And Say Elijah Muhammad Is Wrong When He Says White Are The Devil? They Have To Prove They Are Not The Devil.

Elijah Muhammad

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

I Love Boxing And It Did A Lot For Me. But Sometimes It Made Me Think How Savage Human Beings Could Be To Each Other. That Wasn't The Kind Of Boxer I Wanted To Be. My Strategy Was To Be As Scientific As I Could When I Fought. I Didn't Want To Be Seriously Hurt, And I Didn't Want To Do That To Anybody Else Either.

What I've Found Is That The Religion That Matters, The Real Religion Is Love.

I Predict That This Will Be The Greatest Book Ever And It Will Sell More Than Any Other Book In History

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.

Stay In College, Get The Knowledge. And Stay There Until You're Through. If They Can Make Penicillin Out Of Moldy Bread, They Can Sure Make Something Out Of You. Advice To A Young Person To Continue His Education.

Number One Comes Freedom First For My People And Equality. And This Is What I Plan To Do After I'm Through Fighting - Working With Nothing But The People, The Little People In The Alleys: The Downtrodden People, Going Out And Helping Them With My Image.

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.

Frank Sinatra Told Floyd Paterson How He Should Whoop Me. Frank Sinatra.

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

That's Okay, I'm Still The Greatest.

I'm The Best. I Just Haven't Played Yet.

I Need To Be Famous So I Can Talk About Religion. I Can Talk About God. It's An Expensive Price That I Have To Pay To Be The Most Famous Man On Earth And I Do It With Pleasure Only For God. My Fight Is Only And Introduction To The Real Fight, The One For God. Fighting By Itself Doesn't Interest Me Anymore. I Want To Help People, The Black People And I Need Any Kind Of Media To Spread My Thought: God, Charity, Peace.

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

I Just Felt The Power And The Meanness Of The Man I Was Messing With.

I Was In A Broadway Musical Called Big Time Buck Wright.the Play Didn't Make It But I Was A Success. It Lasted Six Days But I Sung Four Songs And There Were Critics, Seriously, In New York Who Said That My Part Was Perfect. So I Can Beat Joe Frazier Singing.

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

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

A Black, A Puerto Rican And A Mexican Are In A Car. Who's Driving? The Police.

Live Everyday As If It Were Your Last Because Someday You're Going To Be Right.

I Only Read The Holy Koran, The Bible And The Sports Pages

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

The More We Help Others, The More We Help Ourselves

My Health Is In The Hands Of Allah, Who Has Ways Of Testing Us. Whatever Happens, Happens. I A'int The Greatest - It's Allah. I Gave Myself A Job. I Work For God.

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I Saw That Streak In Him When He Told Me, 'get The Hell Out Of Here Or I'll Wipe You Out., I Got The Hell Out Of There, Liston Really Scared Me.

When It Comes To Love, Compassion, And Other Feelings Of The Heart, I Am Rich.

I Have The World Heavyweight Title Not Because It Was 'given' To Me, Not Because Of My Race Or Religion, But Because I Won It In The Ring Through My Own Boxing Ability.

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

I Just Won The Gold Medal And I Couldn't Eat Downtown. I Said, 'something's Wrong.' And From Then On, I've Been A Muslim.

Whoever Knocks Persistently, Ends By Entering.

My Trainer Don't Tell Me Nothing Between Rounds. I Don't Allow Him To. I Fight The Fight. All I Want To Know Is Did I Win The Round. It's Too Late For Advice.

I'm The Most Recognised And Loved Man That Ever Lived

No Black Man Wants A Blue-eyed Black Child, And No White Man Wants A Kinky-haired White Child. Nature Didn't Mean It To Be That Way.

The Only Way For Peace Between The Races Is A Separation Of The Races.

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.

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

Even Today, If My Title Hadn't Been Given Back To Me And I Was In Such Poverty Where I Had To Go And Find A Job, I Would Have Done That.

Some People Have Special Resources Inside, And When God Blesses You To Have More Than Others, You Have A Responsibility To Use It Right

Children Make You Want To Start Life Over.

I Barely Got Out Of School, I Got Out Of School, Mainly, Because I Was A Champ, And I Actually Didn't Pass. I Won't Name The Teachers That Put Me Through, But I Want. If I Was Not A Muslim, Or A Follower Of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed I Couldn't Talk To Somebody For Two Minutes. I Believe I Can Hold My Own As An Intelligent Conversation, But It All Come From The Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

I Have Nothing To Lose By Standing Up And Following My Beliefs. So I'll Go To Jail, So What? We Have Been In Jail For Years.

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.

I Say Get An Education. Become An Electrician, A Mechanic, A Doctor, A Lawyer, Anything But A Fighter. In This Trade, It's The Managers That Make The Money And Last The Longest.

How Come The Chinese Can Go Where I Can't Go In America? Englishmen Can Come And Set Up A Business In White America And Do Things I Can't Do.the Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, Just About Everybody Can Do More Than Black People And Are More Respected.

No One Starts Out On Top. You Have To Work Your Way Up.

I'm Proud, And Islam Did It. And After These Things That I Heard In Church, A Preacher And Watching This And That, I Knew Something Was Wrong But I Couldn't Pinpoint It.

I'm Definitely Gonna Be The People's Champion ... But I Just Ain't Gonna Be The Champ The Way You Want Me To Be The Champ. I'm Gonna Be The Champ The Way I Wanna Be.

I Called My Training Camp Fighter's Heaven

Impossible Is Not A Fact, It's An Opinion.

Champions Have To Have The Skill And The Will. But The Will Must Be Stronger Than The Skill.

God Gave Me This Illness To Remind Me That I'm Not Number One; He Is.

In Florida I Was Illiterate, Boxing Authority Didn't Want Me, Then They Had A Special Psychiatrist To Come To Kentucky, They Checked And They Didn't Want Me. But As Soon As My Name Was Mohammed Ali, As Soon As I Announced I Was A Muslim, Then All Of A Sudden I Became Smart.

I Strongly Object To The Fact That So Many Newspapers Have Given The American Public And The World The Impression That I Have Only Two Alternatives In Taking This Stand: Either I Go To Jail Or Go To The Army. There Is Another Alternative And That Alternative Is Justice. If Justice Prevails, If My Constitutional Rights Are Upheld, I Will Be Forced To Go Neither To The Army Nor Jail. In The End I Am Confident That Justice Will Come My Way For The Truth Must Eventually Prevail.

I Sought The Advice And Cooperation From All Those Around Me- But Not Permission.

I Have A Beautiful Daughter, Beautiful Wife.they Look Like Me, We All Happy And I Don't Have No Trouble. And I Ain't That Much In Love With No Woman To Go Through That Hell - Ain't No One Woman That Good.

The Greatest Victory In Life Is To Rise Above The Material Things That We Once Valued Most

Greatest Victory

When I Was A Kid I Got Mad Enough To Want To Kill Somebody But As You Travel The World And I'm Struggling With A Freedom Fight Against Nations, You Can't Get Enough Hate In You To Be Mad At One Man Just Because It's A Boxing Match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, Who Condemned My Islamic Religion And Didn't Want To Call Me Muhammad Ali And Said I Should've Gone To The Army And I Should Be In Jail.

What You're Thinking Is What You're Becoming.

We All Have The Same God, We Just Serve Him Differently. Rivers, Lakes, Ponds, Streams, Oceans All Have Different Names, But They All Contain Water. So Do Religions Have Different Names, And They All Contain Truth, Expressed In Different Ways Forms And Times. It Doesn't Matter Whether You're A Muslim, A Christian, Or A Jew. When You Believe In God, You Should Believe That All People Are Part Of One Family. If You Love God, You Can't Love Only Some Of His Children.

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

You Know I Hate Fighting. If I Knew How To Make A Living Some Other Way, I Would.

When You're Right, Nobody Remembers. When You're Wrong, Nobody Forgets.

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

I Am The King Of The World. I'm A Man's Man.

Even The Greatest Was Once A Beginner. Don't Be Afraid To Take That First Step.

In America They Got Two Policemen, Five Policemen And One Car Watching Each Other, Each Has Got A Pistol, One Has Got A Machine Gun, One' Got A Shotgun And Two Dogs Growling At Each Other.

If I Kept My Mouth Shut, Because I Can Make Millions, That Isn't Doing Nothing.

I Don't Call Myself A Political Figure But I'm Taken To Be.

I Don't Count My Situps. I Only Start Counting Once It Starts Hurting.

A Long Time Ago, I Took A Walk Down A Street In Harlem In New York City. I Came Upon A Man Who Asked Me For A Dollar. He Had Asked A Few Other People Before Me, But They Only Passed Him By Without Glancing His Way. I Stopped And Handed The Man Some Money. As I Began To Turn Away, He Reached Out And Shook My Hand. He Looked Me In The Eyes And Said, "i Will Bless You." Now, I'm Not Saying That Was God Himself. But How Do We Know That It Wasn't Someone Working For Him, Walking Around In Disguise, Just To See What We Would Do?

Who Would Have Thought When They Came To The Fight? That They'd Witness The Launching Of A Human Satellite.

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.

Holmes Is So Ugly, His Grandmother Said When He Started To Cry The Tears Would Stop And Roll Down The Back Of His Head.

I Was Asked In A Way When Honorable Elijah Mohammed Said Take The Step, Choose Between The Wealth Of America And The Millions Of Dollars And The Title, The Ministry. So, I Chose The Ministry. If I Was Not Sincere, Then I Would Have Easily Went To Vietnam, Boxin' Exhibitions, And Made A Couple Of Cool Million.

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

You're Not Going To Enjoy Every Minute Of The Journey, But The Success You'll Find At The End Will Make It All Worth It.

I Never Push In Front My Muscles, Only My Religion, So I'm Protected.

I'm Not Trying To Get Power Over White. I'm Involved In A Freedom Struggle. Not A Power Struggle.

You Can Do What You Want. But It's Nature To Be With Your Own. I Want To Be With My Own.

People Don't Realise What They Had Till It's Gone. Like President Kennedy - Nobody Like Him. Like The Beatles, There Will Never Be Anything Like Them. Like My Man, Elvis Presley - I Was The Elvis Of Boxing.

True Success Is Reaching Our Potential Without Compromising Our Values.

The Will Must Be Stronger Than The Skill.

If The Boxers Are A Little More Colorful, Talk A Little Like I Did And Just Do Half As Much As I Did For Boxing, It Will Be All Right.

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