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Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones one is silver and the other's gold.

Muhammad Ali

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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
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Louisville
Kentucky
Cassius Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay
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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.
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Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!
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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.
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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.
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Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
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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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I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.
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I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
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True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.
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Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.
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Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.
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We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
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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.
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I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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