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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.

-Muhammad Ali

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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.

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

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?

I'm So Fast That Last Night I Turned Off The Light Switch In My Hotel Room And Was In Bed Before The Room Was Dark.

Joe Frazier Is Ugly. He Has No Rhythm, No Footwork, No Class, He Cannot Talk.

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 Can Drown A Drink Of Water. I Can Kill A Dead Tree. Don't Mess With Muhammad Ali.

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There's Nothing Wrong With Getting Knocked Down, As Long As You Get Right Back Up.

We Cannot Change The Koran Or Make No Modifications, This Cannot Be Done, Or It Would No Longer Be Holy.

Success Is Not Achieved By Winning All The Time. Real Success Comes When We Rise After We Fall. Some Mountains Are Higher Than Others. Some Roads Steeper Than The Next. There Are Hardships And Setbacks But You Cannot Let Them Stop You. Even On The Steepest Road You Must Not Turn Back.

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

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

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

If America Were In A Just War I'd Volunteer For The Front Line. I'd Do The Shuffling And Win The War.

Rivers, Ponds, Lakes And Streams - They All Have Different Names, But They All Contain Water. Just As Religions Do - They All Contain Truths.

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.

Success Is Not Achieved By Winning All The Time. Real Success Comes When We Rise After We Fall.

Why Should They Ask Me To Put On A Uniform And Go Ten Thousand Miles From Home And Drop Bombs And Bullets On Brown People In Vietnam While So-called Negro People In Louisville Are Treated Like Dogs And Denied Simple Human Rights?

White People Cannot Destroy Me Like They Have Other Big Ministers Of Elijah Mohammed In The Past By Telling Us Oh, You Speak Good, You Should Be The Leader.

Friendship Is Not Something You Can Learn In College Or Some Learning Institution, No One Knows How To Become Friends You Just Become But If You Haven't Learned The Meaning Of Friendship You Haven't Learned Anything

I Got Nothing Against No Viet Cong. No Vietnamese Ever Called Me A >.

I Did Not Disregard My Culture, If I Did, It Was The White American Culture, And I Accepted My True Culture, When I Accepted Mohammed Ali, Because This Is A Black Name, Islam Is The Black Man's Religion, And So I Would Like To Say, That I Would Like To Clarify That Point That I Reclaimed My Real Culture, And That's Being A Black Man And Wearing A Black Name With A Black Body, And Not A White Name, So I Would Never Say That I Didn't Disown My Culture.

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.

You Can't Take No Chinese Man And Give Him No Puerto Rican Woman And Talking Like They're In Love And Emotionally In Love And Physically.

If My Fans Think I Can Do Everything I Say I Can Do, Then They're Crazier Than I Am. After One Of His Fight Predictions Turned Out To Be Wrong.

In A Competition Of Love We'll All Share In The Victory, No Matter Who Comes First

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

You Could Be The World's Best Garbage Man, The World's Best Model; It Don't Matter What You Do If You're The Best.

"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..."

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

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

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.

I Was Lucky, From The Age Of 12 I Had Boxing Talent And Was Good For My Age.

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.

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

He's Too Ugly To Be The Champ!

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

The Sun Is Always Shining Someplace.

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.

When You Can Whip Any Man In The World, You Never Know Peace.

Frazier Is So Ugly That He Should Donate His Face To The Us Bureau Of Wild Life.

Wars Of Nations Are Fought To Change Maps. But Wars Of Poverty Are Fought To Map Change.

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

There Comes A Time In Every Person's Life When He Has To Choose The Course His Life Will Take.

There Comes A Time

Whether It's Boxing, Basketball, Or Badminton, One Must Be Ready To Succeed Before Entering The Arena...long Before The Lights Come Up.

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

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

I'm Going To Show You How Great I Am!

The Most Powerful Military Country In The World, America - Which Makes All The Guns, All The Machinery, All The Bullets - Taught Us How To Shoot The Guns.

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.

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

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.

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

Do You Know Why I’m The Fastest Heavyweight In The World? I’m The Only Heavyweight That Trains Underwater!

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.

The Sweetness Of Life Lies In Dispensing With Formalities.

Sweetness Of Life

I Had Something To Do, Which Most Kids Really Need. Something They Can Look Forward To - A Goal, A Purpose To Work Towards. Something To Achieve. Keeps Them Out Of Trouble.

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

I Would Say That I Put Down A Lot Of The White American Culture, And Ways, And Beliefs.

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

I'm The Greatest Fighter In The Entire World, How Can I Be Afraid? I Love People And People Love Me.

Sometimes I Feel A Lot Of Things But I Keep It In. I'm Sure We All Have This Built-in Radar Of What We Predict And When It Happens, We Feel 'i Knew It'.

Islam Is Against Killing, Terrorism, And Murder. People Who Commit These Acts In The Name Of Islam Are Wrong. And If I Had A Chance I Would Do Something About It.

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

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

Muslim Religion

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

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.

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

Who Would Thought Only Of Themselves And Kill Their Race? You Would Hate Other People If You Don't Want To Stay Who You Are.

The More We Help Others, The More We Help Ourselves

Spirituality Is Recognizing The Divine Light That Is Within Us All. It Doesn't Belong To Any Particular Religion; It Belongs To Everyone

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.

Every Time I Look In The Mirror, I See That Kid From Louisville, Kentucky, Staring Back At Me. His Name Was Cassius Clay.

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

Great Grandfather

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

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 Didn't Deny Nothing I Believe. I'm Still The Same Everything.

I Don't Know What Truculent Means, But If It's Good, It's Me

There Are No Pleasures In A Fight But Some Of My Fights Have Been A Pleasure To Win.

I Said, 'oh, I Know. If The White Folks Is In Heaven Too, Then The Black Angels Were In The Kitchen, Preparing The Milk And Honey.'

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

The Real Enemy Of My People Is Here. I Will Not Disgrace My Religion, My People Or Myself By Becoming A Tool To Enslave Those Who Are Fighting For Their Own Justice, Freedom And Equality.… If I Thought The War Was Going To Bring Freedom And Equality To 22 Million Of My People They Wouldn’t Have To Draft Me, I’d Join Tomorrow. I Have Nothing To Lose By Standing Up For My Beliefs. So I’ll Go To Jail, So What? We’ve Been In Jail For 400 Years.

Brooding Over Blunders Is The Biggest Blunder.

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

Champions Aren't Made In The Gyms. Champions Are Made From Something They Have Deep Inside Them-a Desire, A Dream, A Vision.

When One Man Of Popularity Can Let The World Know The Problem, He Might Lose A Few Dollars Himself. He Might Lose His Life. But He's Helping Millions.

Oh! How The Hours Hasten To Change Into Days, The Days Into Months, The Months Into Years, And Those Into Life's Annihilation!

I’ve Wrestled With Alligators, I’ve Tussled With A Whale. I Done Handcuffed Lightning And Throw Thunder In Jail. You Know I’m Bad. Just Last Week, I Murdered A Rock, Injured A Stone, Hospitalized A Brick. I’m So Mean, I Make Medicine Sick.

Stumbling Is The Fruit Of Haste.

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.

God Tries You In Certain, Certain Ways. Some People Are Rich, And They Believe In God. They Lose The Money, Things Get Hard, They Get Weak And Quit Going To Church. Quit Serving God Like They Did.

Things Are Getting Much Better, But I Always Wondered When I Went To Church On Sundays. I've Always Been One To... I'm Not Just A Boxer.

Church On Sunday

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

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.

My Face Is So Pretty, You Don’t See A Scar, Which Proves I’m The King Of The Ring By Far.

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

While Frazier Was A Man Of Few Words / Ali Was A World Of Mouth / But He Found His Place In History / Now His Heart Can Express Him Well / Joe Frazier Was A Silent Warrior / Whom Ali Silently Admired / One Could Not Rise Without The Other

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

Once The Choice Is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-guess Your Decisions

I Don't Smoke But I Keep A Match Box In My Pocket, When My Heart Slips Towards Sin, I Burn The Matchstick And Heat My Palm With It, Then Say To Myself, "ali You Can't Even Bear This Heat, How Would You Bear The Unbearable Heat Of Hellfire?"

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

I Just Try To Stay Half Way Decent Looking. Boxing's A Rough Sport And You Get Hit A Lot.

I Do A Lot Of Reading, A Lot Of Studying. I Ask Questions, I'll Go Out, Travel These Countries, I'll Watch How Their People Live, And I Learn.

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

No One Knows What To Say In The Loser's Locker Room.

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.

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.

I Am So Mean I've Handcuffed Lightnin' And Thrown Thunder In Jail.

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.

I Am America. I Am The Part You Won't Recognize. But Get Used To Me. Black, Confident, Cocky; My Name, Not Yours; My Religion, Not Yours; My Goals, My Own; Get Used To Me.

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

That Computer Was Made In Alabama

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.

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.

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've Never Let Anyone Talk Me Into Not Believing In Myself

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.

Who's Gonna Dare To Be Great?

Dare To Be Great

I Don't Always Know What I'm Talking About, But I Know I'm Right.

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.

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

I Believe In The Holy Koran. It Says We Declare Ourselves To Be Righteous Muslims And Do Not Take Part In Wars, Or In No Way Fashion Or Form Take The Lives Of Humans Unless It's A Holy War Declared By God Himself.

Sonny Liston Is Nothing. The Man Can't Talk. The Man Can't Fight. The Man Needs Talking Lessons. The Man Needs Boxing Lessons. And Since He's Gonna Fight Me, He Needs Falling Lessons.

The Roughest And Toughest Fighter I Fought Was Joe Frazier

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.

The Crowd Did Not Dream When They Laid Down Their Money That They Would See A Total Eclipse Of The Sonny!

If You Lose A Big Fight, It Will Worry You All Of Your Life. It Will Plague You - Until You Get Your Revenge.

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

The Man Who Has No Imagination Has No Wings.

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

The Whites Have Always Had The Say In America. White People Made Jesus White, Angels White, The Last Supper White. If I Threaten You, I'm Blackmailing You. A Black Cat Is Bad Luck. If You're Put Out Of A Club, You're Blackballed. Angel's-food Cake Is White; Devil's-food Cake Is Black. Good Guys In Cowboy Movies Wear White Hats. The Bad Guys Always Wore Black Hats.

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

When I Was 9, I Saw A Wrestler On Television Named Gorgeous George. He Said, "i'm Beautiful. I'm So Pretty That If A Sucker Touches My Face, I'll Kill Him. If He Messes With My Hair, I'll Pummel Him." I Said To Myself, "that's A Good Idea. I Am The Greatest, I'm Pretty." And Then I Took It A Little Further Than He Did.

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.

Lakes, Rivers, Streams...all Are Water And All Travel To The Same Destination. So It Is With Religion.

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.

It's Not Bragging If You Can Back It Up.

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.

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

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

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

Some Gems For The Greatest Of Them All

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

I Called My Training Camp Fighter's Heaven

Inside Of A Ring Or Out, Ain't Nothing Wrong With Going Down. It's Staying Down That's Wrong.

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.

I Came Back To Louisville After The Olympics With My Shiny Gold Medal. Went Into A Luncheonette Where Black Folks Couldn't Eat. Thought I'd Put Them On The Spot. I Sat Down And Asked For A Meal. The Olympic Champion Wearing His Gold Medal. They Said, "we Don't Serve Niggers Here." I Said, "that's Okay, I Don't Eat 'em." But They Put Me Out In The Street. So I Went Down To The River, The Ohio River, And Threw My Gold Medal In It.

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.

Black People In America Will Never Be Free So Long As They're On The White Man's Land. We Can't Be Free Until We Get Our Own Land And Our Own Country In North America. When We Separate From America And Take Maybe Ten States, Then We'll Be Free.

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

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.

I Run On The Road Long Before I Dance Under The Lights.

To Be A Great Champion You Must Believe You Are The Best. If You’re Not, Pretend You Are.

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.

No Woman On This Whole Earth Can Please Me And Cook For Me And Socialise And Talk To Me Like My American Black Woman.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Anywhere I Go, There Is Always An Incredible Crowd That Follows Me. In Rome, As I Land At The Airport, Even The Men Kiss Me. I Love Rome.

If I Could Meet Anybody? The Prophet Muhammad.

Prophet Muhammad

Money And Riches Don't Mean Nothing To Me. I Don't Care Nothing About Being No Rich Individual. I'm Not Living For Glory Or For Fame; All This Is Doomed For Destruction. You Got It Today, Tomorrow It's Gone. I Got Bigger Things On My Mind Than That. I Got Islam On My Mind.

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.

What’s My Greatest Weakness? Sad Stories, People With Problems

So When I Heard That We Don't Have Our Names, We Don't Speak Our True Arabic Language, We Were Robbed Of Islam, Our True Religion, And We've Been Made Deaf, Dumb, And Blind In Slavery.and Elijah Muhammad Was Taught By Allah, Who We Refer To As God, To Teach Us The Truth That Will Free Us.and When I Heard It, I've Been Free Ever Since. I Have No Racial Problems, I Don't Go Where I'm Not Wanted.

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.

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

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 Have More Fans And More Followers And More Supporters. Because The People Who Actually Saw The Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali Fight, They Saw Me Win At Least Nine Rounds - The People Who Know Boxing.

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

Motivational Sports

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.

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.

Cassius Clay Is A Name That White People Gave To My Slave Master. Now That I Am Free, That I Don't Belong Anymore To Anyone, That I'm Not A Slave Anymore, I Gave Back Their White Name, And I Chose A Beautiful African One.

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

If You Look At The World The Same Way When You're 50 That You Did When You Were 20, Then You Wasted 30 Years.

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

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

God Works Through People. It’s Not Me.

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.

You Have A Right To Say What You Believe, And I Have A Right.

True Giving Happens When We Give From Our Heart.

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

The Outgoing And Spontaneous Person That The World Knew While I Was Boxing Was A Persona That I Created To Sell Tickets And Promote My Career. In My Private Life, I Am Quiet And Reflective By Nature.

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

Impossible Is Not A Fact. It's An Opinion. Impossible Is Not A Declaration. It's A Dare. Impossible Is Potential. Impossible Is Temporary. Impossible Is Nothing

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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.

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

I’m Young, I’m Handsome, I’m Fast, I’m Pretty, And Can’t Possibly Be Beat. They Must Fall In The Round I Call.

I Said I Was The Greatest, Not The Smartest.

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

I’m Gonna Whup Whoever Stole My Bike!

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