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No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

Muhammad Ali

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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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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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I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.
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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.
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This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
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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.
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Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.
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I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
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I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.
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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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Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag
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I'm the fastest thing on two feet.
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Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
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I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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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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Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs
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