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God works through people. It’s not me.

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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I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.
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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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While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other
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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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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
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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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