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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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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
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Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
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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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Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.
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The one thing I don't understand is war.
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Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.
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All black Americans have slave names. They have white names names that the slave master has given to them.
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I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.
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I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.
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If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.
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The sun is always shining someplace.
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I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky my name, not yours my religion, not yours my goals, my own get used to me.
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I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
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