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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.

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Muhammad Ali

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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.

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Scatter Abroad What You Have Already Amassed Rather Than Pile Up New Wealth.

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

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When Your Mother Dies, It Really Hurts. But With Time, You Get Used To It. That's Nature's Way.

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Brooding Over Blunders Is The Biggest Blunder.

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.

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We Are Stone Enemies When The Bell Rings

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Floyd Paterson And Other Fighters, They Just Don't Take Part.they Make A Million Dollars, They Get A Rolls Royce And A Nice Home And A White Wife And Think, 'well, I Made It'.

So I Didn't Pass. It Was The Army's Decision That They Didn't Want Me To Go Into The Service. They're The Boss. I Don't Want To Say No Whole Lot About It.

Hittin' Hard Don't Mean Nothing If You Don't Find Nothin' To Hit.

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

If You Haven't Learned The Meaning Of Friendship, You Really Haven't Learned Anything.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee.

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.

Every Day Is Different, And Some Days Are Better Than Others, But No Matter How Challenging The Day, I Get Up And Live It.

What You Are Thinking Is What You Are Becoming.

Whoever Listens To Slander Is Himself A Slanderer.

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

I Figured That If I Said It Enough, I Would Convince The World That I Really Was The Greatest.

Accomplish Nothing

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

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

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

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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.

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

I Am The Astronaut Of Boxing. Joe Louis And Dempsey Were Just Jet Pilots. I'm In A World Of My Own.

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.

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.

You Made A Big Mistake By Letting Me Come, Because Now I'm Going After Your Job

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.

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

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

I Believe In Allah And In Peace. I Don't Try To Move Into White Neighborhoods... I Don’t Want To Marry A White Woman. I Was Baptized When I Was 12, But I Didn’t Know What I Was Doing. I’m Not A Christian Anymore. I Know Where I’m Going And I Know The Truth And I Don’t Have To Be What You Want Me To Be. I’m Free To Be What I Want.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Fact Is I Never Was Too Bright In School. I Just Barely Graduated. I Had A D- Average. I Ain't Ashamed Of It, Though. I Mean, How Much Do Principals Make A Month?

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

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The Show Was Bad, But I Was Great

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

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

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

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

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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.

This Relationship Will Help Guarantee That, For Generations To Come, People Of All Nations Will Understand My Beliefs And My Purpose

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I Have A Radar Built Inside Me To Avoid Punches

I'm The Fastest Thing On Two Feet.

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

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.'

Friendship Is Definitely The Most Difficult Detail On The Globe To Elucidate. It Is Really Not Something You Understand At School. But If You Have Not Realized The Which Means Of Friendship, You Truly Have Not Realized Anything.

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

Catching Flies Is Better Training Than Hitting The Speed Bag

Boxing Is Good For The Livelihood But Mainly, Money Don't Really Mean Nothing.

Everything The Black People Are Doing Comes From The Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They Are Black Now, They Don't Want To Be Called Negroes. This Come From The Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

My Toughest Opponent Has Always Been Me.

I Was The First One In The Gym, And The Last One To Leave.

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 Know Where I'm Going And I Know The Truth, And I Don't Have To Be What You Want Me To Be. I'm Free To Be What I Want.

The Roughest And Toughest Fighter I Fought Was Joe Frazier

It Will Be A Killer, And A Chiller, And A Thriller, When I Get The Gorilla In Manila.

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

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

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?

We Have One Life / It Soon Will Be Past / What We Do For God / Is All That Will Last.

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.

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

I Try To Learn As Much As I Can Because I Know Nothing Compared To What I Need To Know.

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.

Miss America Was Always White. All The Beautiful Brown Women In America, Beautiful Sun Tans, Beautiful Shapes, All Types Of Complexions, But She Always Was White.and Miss World Was Always White, And Miss Universe Was Always White.and The Angel Fruit Cake Was The White Cake And The Devil Food Cake Was The Chocolate Cake.i Said, 'momma, Why Is Everything White?' I Always Wondered. And The President Lived In The White House.

If You Wonder What The Difference Between Them And Me Is, I'll Break The News: You Never Heard Of Them. Most Of Them ... Can Fight Almost As Good As I Can. I'm Just Saying You Never Heard Of Them.

I Figure I'll Be Champ For About Ten Years And Then I'll Let My Brother Take Over - Like The Kennedys Down In Washington.

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.

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

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

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

Do Not Be Ashamed To Give A Little; For To Deceive Is To Give Still Less.

My Mama Told Me I Was Already In A Hurry As A Child. I Even Had Measles And Chicken Pox At The Same Time

I Need To Get Everything Straight. I'm Not Involved In A Power Struggle Between Black And White.

Black And White

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

The World’s Champ Should Be Pretty Like Me!

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

Law Of Attraction

Impossible Things

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.

Children Make You Want To Start Life Over.

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.

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

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.

Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt.

I Called My Training Camp Fighter's Heaven

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

Truly Great People In History Never Wanted To Be Great For Themselves. All They Wanted Was The Chance To Do Good For Others And Be Close To God.

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

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.

It's Ain't Sad That I Want My Child To Look Like Me? Every Intelligent Person Wants Their Child To Look Like Him.

I Don't Know How Many Millions I'll Make, So I Have To Give Some Back To Charity. God Blesses Me With The Money, But Only If I Give Some Away.

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

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.

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

True Success Is Reaching Our Potential Without Compromising Our Values.

Wisdom Is Knowing When You Can't Be Wise.

Others May Know Pleasure, But Pleasure Is Not Happiness. It Has No More Importance Than A Shadow Following A Man.

That All You Got, George?

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?

Elijah Muhammad Teaches Us The Truth Of God Beautified The Planet By Separating Everybody In Different Countries For Themselves: Chinese In China, English In England, Puerto Ricans In Puerto Rico, Ethiopians In Ethiopia, Arabians In Arabia, Egyptians In Egypt, And Americans Took That Country And Stole It Away So There's Always Going To Be Trouble And Chaos.

Sometimes Howard [cosell] Makes Me Wish I Was A Dog And He Was A Fireplug.

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

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.

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.

You Can Be Free. You Can Be Black. Look At Me! I'm The Heavyweight Champion! Can't Nobody Stop Me.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

The Holy Koran, Our Religious Book, Teaches Us, That We Who Declare Ourselves To Be Righteous Muslims, Do Not Participate In No Wars, In No Way, Fashion Or Form, That Take The Lives Of Other Humans.

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

Malcolm X Got Famous Mainly By Being Hard On White People, White Devils, Blue-eyed Blond-headed Dogs.

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

Elvis Presley Was The Sweetest, Most Humble And Nicest Man You'd Want To Know.

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

Emmett Till And I Were About The Same Age. A Week After He Was Murdered... I Stood On A Corner With A Gang Of Boys, Looking At Pictures Of Him In The Black Newspapers And Magazines. In One, He Was Laughing And Happy. In The Other, His Head Was Swollen And Bashed In, His Eyes Bulging Out Of Their Sockets, And His Mouth Twisted And Broken... I Couldn't Get Emmett Till Out Of My Mind, Until One Evening I Thought Of A Way To Get Back At White People For His Death.

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

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.

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

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

They Can Boo Me, Yell At Me, And Throw Peanuts At Me, As Long As They Pay To Get In.

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

What Keeps Me Going Is Goals.

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.

If They Can Make Penicillin Out Of Mouldy Bread, They Can Sure Make Something Out Of You.

I Wish People Would Love Everybody Else The Way They Love Me. It Would Be A Better World.

It's The Repetition Of Affirmations That Leads To Belief. And Once That Belief Becomes A Deep Conviction, Things Begin To Happen.

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

He's Too Ugly To Be The Champ!

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

That Computer Was Made In Alabama

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

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

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

Impossible Is Nothing.

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!”

All I Want Now Is To Be A Nice, Clean Gentleman. I've Proved My Point. Now I'm Going To Set An Example For All The Nice Boys And Girls. I'm Through Talking

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.

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

I Don't See No Black And White Couples In England Or America Walking Around Proud Holding Their Children And Going Out.

Black And White

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

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 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.

If The Culprits Are Muslim, They Have Twisted The Teachings Of Islam. Whoever Performed, Or Is Behind, The Terrorist Attacks In The United States Of America Does Not Represent Islam. God Is Not Behind Assassins.

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.

Just Remember That You Don't Have To Be What They Want You To Be.

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

Shut Up, I Know What I'm Doing!

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