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I Make Predictions About What I'm Going To Do Before A Fight, That Makes Me Nervous Because I've Gotten So Good At It Until People Really Look For Me To Do It.if I Say The Man's Going To Fall In Round Five, Like Your Man Henry Cooper Here, He Was Stopped In Round Five But It Was On A Cut - It Wasn't Because He Was Out. But Usually 'm On The Spot With My Predictions And Some People Really Gamble And Bet Money On The Rounds I Say.

-Muhammad Ali

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I Make Predictions About What I'm Going To Do Before A Fight, That Makes Me Nervous Because I've Gotten So Good At It Until People Really Look For Me To Do It.if I Say The Man's Going To Fall In Round Five, Like Your Man Henry Cooper Here, He Was Stopped In Round Five But It Was On A Cut - It Wasn't Because He Was Out. But Usually 'm On The Spot With My Predictions And Some People Really Gamble And Bet Money On The Rounds I Say.

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You Got Black People In An All-white Country And They Don't Know Nothing About Themselves.

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

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Put Yourself Out On A Limb, Sucka, Like Me! - Young Cassius Clay To Heavily Favored Thug Sonny Liston During The Weigh In Before Cassius Wins His First Title And Changes His Name To Muhammad Ali.

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A Rooster Crows Only When It Sees The Light. Put Him In The Dark And He'll Never Crow. I Have Seen The Light And I'm Crowing.

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They Say Actually Every Time I Enter The Ring, In A Way, I`m Going To The War. They Say To Me Daily, You Are A Prized Fighter, What`s The Difference? And I Like To Say To Those Critics Of The Press And The Others That There Is One Hell Of A Lot Of Difference In Fighting In A Ring And Going To War In Vietnam.

Be Obedient To Your Superior, And Your Inferior Will Obey You.

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.

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Most People Don't Pray Until They're In Trouble. When People Need Help They Pray A Lot. But After They Get What They Want, They Slow Down. If A Man Takes Five Showers A Day, His Body Will Be Clean. Praying Five Times A Day Helps Me Clean My Mind.

On My Twelfth Birthday, I Got A New Bicycle As A Present From My Folks, And I Rode It To A Fair That Was Being Held At The Columbia Gymnasium, And When I Come Out, My Bike Was Gone. I Was So Mad I Was Crying, And A Policeman, Joe Martin, Come Up And I Told Him I Was Going To Whip Whoever Took My Bike. He Said I Ought To Take Some Boxing Lessons To Learn How To Whip The Thief Better, And I Did. That's When I Started Fighting.

Service To Others Is The Rent You Pay For Your Room Here On Earth.

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

Women Are Not Equal With Men, That's Sure. When The Woman Is In Danger She Always Looks To The Man For Help. We Are Superior By Nature. The Black Or White Woman Needn't Worry In Life Because The World Is Ruled By The White Man.

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

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.

Frazier Soaked It All Up Like A Sponge. When They Arrived In Manila It Was The Same Story. Ali Poured Scorn On His Opponent. Humiliated Him. Joe Had The Heart Of A Lion But Verbally He Was Out Of His Depth When Ali Got Going. One Time, As Fight Day Approached, Ali Spotted Frazier On A Hotel Balcony, Grabbed A Security Guard's Gun And Fired Some Rounds At Him. Everybody Knew It Wasn't Live Ammo But It Still Startled The Hell Out Of Joe.] Go Back In Your Hole, Gorilla, You Gonna Scare The People! Come Out Again And I'm Gonna Kill Ya Before Time!”

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.

It's Hard To Be Humble, When You're As Great As I Am.

You Been Hearing About How Bad I Am Since You Were A Little Kid With Mess In Your Pants! Tonight, I'm Gonna Whip You Till You Cry Like A Baby.

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

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.

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

Greatest Victory

All Black Americans Have Slave Names. They Have White Names; Names That The Slave Master Has Given To Them.

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

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.

Tolerance And Understanding Won't 'trickle Down' In Our Society Any More Than Wealth Does.

To Be A Follower Of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, You Have To Completely Extain From Alcohol, Or Fornication, Adultered, Killin', Stealin', Lyin'. I Would Say That The People Are Not Rejectin' The Honorable Elijah Mohammed Because They Don't Believe What He Teach.

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.

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

There Are Billions Of People In The World, And Every One Of Them Is Special. No One Else In The World Is Like You.

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

I Know I Got It Made While The Masses Of Black People Are Catchin' Hell, But As Long As They Ain't Free, I Ain't Free.

I Think I Could Beat Joe Frazier Singing. I Was In A Broadway Musical Called Big Time Buck Wright.

Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt.

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.

Why Do I Want My Wife To Show Off Her Panties When The Wind Blows? Horses Show Their Behinds, And Cows And Mules, Not Humans.

The Greater Our Level Of Understanding, The Harder The Tests Become.

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

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

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

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

I Have A Radar Built Inside Me To Avoid Punches

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

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

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.

To Be Able To Give Away Riches Is Mandatory If You Wish To Possess Them. This Is The Only Way That You Will Be Truly Rich.

There Live A Great Man Named Joe Who Was Belittled By A Loudmouth Foe. While His Rival Would Taunt And Tease Joe Silently Bore The Stings. And Then Fought Like Gladiator In The Ring.

If I Could Meet Anybody? The Prophet Muhammad.

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

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

I Didn't Run With A Gang - I Didn't Have Time. There Were A Few Little Street Gangs Sitting In The Spotlights At Night Time - Talking And Playing Marbles. But I Was So Wrapped Up In Boxing Since I Was 12.

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

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.

The Show Was Bad, But I Was Great

Maybe I Was Great In The Ring, But Outside Of Boxing, I'm Just A Brother Like Other People. I Want To Live A Good Life, Serve God, Help Everybody I Can. And One More Thing. I'm Still Gonna Find Out Who Stole My Bike When I Was 12 Years Old In Louisville And I'm Gonna Whup Him. That Was A Good Bike.

Who Is The Descendant Of The Slavemasters A Descendant Of Slaves To Fight Other People In Thier Own Country?

I Said A Lot Of Things In The Heat Of The Moment That I Shouldn't Have Said. Called Him Names I Shouldn't Have Called Him. I Apologise For That. I'm Sorry. It Was All Meant To Promote The Fight.

You Lose Nothing When Fighting For A Cause ... In My Mind The Losers Are Those Who Don't Have A Cause They Care About.

I Would Like To Say That Whites Jumped Right Behind Malcolm X. They’re Makin’ A Book About Him, It’s Required Readin’ In All Colleges Now, And They’re Makin’ A Movie About Him, And Projectin’ Him As The Leader And If You Read His Book And See The Movie That’s Comin’ Out, It’ll Make You Hate Elijah Mohammed And The Muslims. Mainly, This Is Done To Turn The Black People Against The Real Leader And I’d Like To Say That This Is The Way White People Rule.

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?

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

The Worst Man Is The One Who Sees Himself As The Best.

It All Started To Come Together When I Realized That Boxing Was How I Was Going To Succeed In Life.

Black People We've Been Taught That We Will Never Be Free, Until Some Will Have To Die, Some Will Have To Give Up Wealth, Their Loved Ones, And Their Health, So, What I'm Doin' Is For Myself And For Justice For Black People, Runnin' Will Kill It All, It'll Make Me A Coward.

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

Muslim Religion

Everything I Got Comes From Elijah Mohammed. He Taught Me Who I Was, He Made Me Proud, He Made Me Fearless, He Made Me Love My Own, I’ve Turned Down Millions To Keep From Selling Out My People, The Beautiful Name Mohammed Ali. And White People Cannot Destroy Me Like They Have Other Big Ministers Of His In The Past By Telling Us Oh, You Speak Good, You Should Be The Leader.white People Make Me Thinkin' That I'm Smart, And As Soon As I Leave Elijah You Can Get Me. But As Long As I Stay With The Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm Safe.

Since I Won't Let The Critics Seal My Fate, They Keep Hollering I'm Full Of Hate. But They Don't Really Hurt Me None, 'cause I'm Doing Good And Having Fun.

The One Thing I Don't Understand Is War.

I'm The Fastest Thing On Two Feet.

When A Chivalrous Man Makes An Oath, He Is Faithful To It, And When He Attains Power, He Spares His Enemy.

The Same People That Are With Me For Not Going To Vietnam Because I Saved Them And Their Children.the Same People Will Give Me Hell If I Turn To Them And Say, 'let's Free My People Now'.they're With Me On One Part Of My Beliefs About The War, That's All. Not For My Freedom.

Love Is The Net Where Hearts Are Caught Like Fish.

War On Nations Changes Maps. War On Poverty Maps Change.

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.

Islam Religion Has No Color Distinction, We Are Just Muslims.

I Called My Training Camp Fighter's Heaven

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.

Impossible Is Not A Declaration. It's A Dare.

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

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

Mr. President, I've Been A Citizen Of The United States Of America For Thirty Three Years And Was Never Invited To The White House. It Sure Gives Me Pleasure To Be Invited To The Black House.

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

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.

Religions Have Different Names, And They All Contain Truth, Expressed In Different Ways Forms And Times

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

So Now I'm Going To Forget The 400 Years Of Lynching And Killing Raping And Depriving My People Feeding Of Justice And Equality And The Lowest Of Low Last Respect And I'm Going To Look At Two Or Three White People Who Are Trying To Do Right And Don't See The Other Million Who Are Trying To Kill Me? I'm Not That Big Of A Fool.

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 Said I Was The Greatest, Not The Smartest.

That Computer Was Made In Alabama

To The People That Have Said I'm Too Small, I'm Not Fast Enough, I Don't Have What It Takes, I'm Not Strong Enough. Thank You

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.

I Got It Made The Rest Of My Life, Financially And In Every Other Way. There's Nobody In The World Like Me. I'm Getting Out Just In Time. If I Was Twenty Seven, I Could Still Kick Ass. I Don't Have To Beat Holmes. Why? I Raised Him, He Worked Three Years As A Sparring Partner For Me.

Sparring Partner

True Giving Happens When We Give From Our Heart.

Will Be A Divine Fight, A Holy War...armageddon On A Miniature Scale.

Whoever Knocks Persistently, Ends By Entering.

I Still Looked The Same - I Had A Swollen Jaw.

Impossible Is Just A Big Word Thrown Around By Small Men Who Find It Easier To Live In The World They've Been Given Than To Explore The Power They Have To Change It.

The World Badly Needs More Peaceful And Loving Men Like Sri Chinmoy. I Am A Muslim And He Is Serving All People Of Peace. Sri Chinmoy Is Doing So Much For The World, For People Of All Faiths, Because Of His Own Peace And Faith.

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.

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.

Lighting That Torch In Atlanta Didn't Make Me Nervous. Standing Up To The Government - That Made Me Nervous.

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.

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