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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
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Boxer
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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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
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Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
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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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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
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In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away
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If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
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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.
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I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.
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But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.
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My main fight is for freedom and equality.
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I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
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I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens.
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To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach.
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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.
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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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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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Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
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God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
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