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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.

-Muhammad Ali

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Life Is A Gamble.

Muhammad Ali

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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.

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

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Great Grandfather

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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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