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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
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Professional Boxer
Louisville
Kentucky
Cassius Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay
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The Greatest
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More quotes by Muhammad Ali

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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.
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God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.
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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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Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.
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When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
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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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I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
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The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.
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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.
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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.
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There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.
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Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
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There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
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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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Prejudice comes from being in the dark sunlight disinfects it.
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I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.
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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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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.
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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.
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The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
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