Top 100 Muhammad Ali Quotes
#1. We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
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#2. If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
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#3. Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer
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#4. 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
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#5. I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.
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#6. If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.
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#7. I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.
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#8. Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people
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#9. Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
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#11. Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.
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#13. No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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'.
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#16. Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.
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#19. I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.
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#20. I want to be the first black man on the moon
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#21. Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions
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#22. The more we help others, the more we help ourselves
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#23. I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
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#24. Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to
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#25. 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.
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#26. If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad
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#27. Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.
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#28. Lakes, rivers, streams ... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
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#30. A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag
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#33. Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous
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#34. Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me
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#35. I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.
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#36. There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
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#37. The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me.They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.
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#40. They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.
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#41. I want fifteen referees at this fight ... because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me
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#42. I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.
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#43. Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
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#45. I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.
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#46. If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
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#47. There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.
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#48. What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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#52. 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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#53. 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.
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#54. I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.
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#55. In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
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#56. Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
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#58. You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.
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#59. Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.
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#60. What's my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems
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#61. 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.
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#62. I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
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#63. Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town
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#64. Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women
but all that stuff stopped.
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#65. Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs
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#66. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.
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#67. Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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#68. Do you know why I'm the fastest heavyweight in the world? I'm the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
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#70. I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
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#71. We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.
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#72. It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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#73. I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.
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#76. 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.
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#78. I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.
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#79. My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
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#80. 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.
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#82. Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
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#83. I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.
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#84. Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.
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#85. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
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#86. 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.
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#87. I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
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#89. True giving happens when we give from our heart.
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#90. There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.
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#91. I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
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#92. 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.
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#93. I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
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#94. The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
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#95. 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.
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#96. When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock
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#97. Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
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#98. If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
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#99. We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
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#100. I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good.
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