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Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag
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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Flies
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So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.
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I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.
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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
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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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I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
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