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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

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Muhammad Ali

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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

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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.

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.

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

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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.

If You Were Surprised When Nixon Resigned, Just Watch What Happens When I Whup Foreman's Behind!

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

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

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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.

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I'm So Mean I Make Medicine Sick!

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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.

I'm A Muslim. I've Been A Muslim For 20 Years. . . . You Know Me. I'm A Boxer. I've Been Called The Greatest. People Recognize Me For Being A Boxer And A Man Of Truth. I Wouldn't Be Here Representing Islam If It Were Terrorist. . . . I Think All People Should Know The Truth, Come To Recognize The Truth. Islam Is Peace.

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True Giving Happens When We Give From Our Heart.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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The Roughest And Toughest Fighter I Fought Was Joe Frazier

My Soul Has Grown Over The Years, And Some Of My Views Have Changed. As Long As I Am Alive, I Will Continue To Try To Understand More Because The Work Of The Heart Is Never Done.

I'm The Most Recognized And Loved Man That Ever Lived Cuz There Weren't No Satellites When Jesus And Moses Were Around, So People Far Away In The Villages Didn't Know About Them.

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

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.

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.

Many People Are Quick To Say That We Are Not Recognized By Muslims In The East . And I Start With The Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, He Went Throughout The Holy City Of Mecca To Dine And Wine With Gamal Abdel Nasser Of Egypt And All Of The Black, Mainly The Rulers Of The Islamic Countries.

No Pork, Soda Pop, Cigarettes, Alcohol – Ever!

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.

What You Are Thinking Is What You Are Becoming.

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.

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.

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.

When A Man Says I Cannot, He Has Made A Suggestion To Himself. He Has Weakened His Power Of Accomplishing That Which Otherwise Would Have Been Accomplished.

You May Talk About Sweden, You May Talk About Rome, But Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's Home. A Lot Of People Said That Floyd Couldn't Fight, But You Should Have Seen Him On The Comeback Night.

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.

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 Don't Consider Myself No Attractive Man. People Like Tom Jones And Elvis Presley - I'm Not Nothing Like That.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

"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..."

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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.

I Outwit Them, And Then I Outhit Them

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

I Don't Count My Sit-ups. I Only Start Counting When It Starts Hurting. That Is When I Start Counting, Because Then It Really Counts. That's What Makes You A Champion.

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

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

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.

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

Over The Years My Religion Has Changed And My Spirituality Has Evolved. Religion And Spirituality Are Very Different, But People Often Confuse The Two. Some Things Cannot Be Taught, But They Can Be Awakened In The Heart. Spirituality Is Recognizing The Divine Light That Is Within Us All. It Doesn't Belong To Any Particular Religion; It Belongs To Everyone.

What Keeps Me Going Is Goals.

You Can't Keep Your Mind On Fighting When You're Thinking About A Woman. You Can't Keep Your Concentration. You Feel Like Sleeping All The Time.

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

I'm Most Proud Of My Family.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Won The Olympic Gold Medal In Rome, Italy. Olympic Champion. The Russian Standing Right Here, And The Pole Right Here.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Hana, Everything That God Made Valuable In The World Is Covered And Hard To Get To. Where Do You Find Diamonds? Deep Down In The Ground, Covered And Protected. Where Do You Find Pearls? Deep Down At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Covered Up And Protected In A Beautiful Shell. Where Do You Find Gold? Way Down In The Mine, Covered Over With Layers And Layers Of Rock. You've Got To Work Hard To Get To Them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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The More We Help Others, The More We Help Ourselves

That Computer Was Made In Alabama

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

Black And White

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

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.

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

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

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'd Like To Live To A Hundred.

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

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?'

The Man Who Has No Imagination Has No Wings.

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

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

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

I Want To Be The First Black Man On The Moon

I'm Not The Greatest; I'm The Double Greatest. Not Only Do I Knock 'em Out, I Pick The Round.

Self Confidence

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.

My Toughest Opponent Has Always Been Me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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