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I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. I shook up the world! I want justice...

Muhammad Ali

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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
Activist
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Autobiographer
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Louisville
Kentucky
Cassius Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Jr.
The Greatest
Thing
Prettiest
Men
Shook
World
King
Kings
Lived
Greatest
Justice
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I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.
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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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No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
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I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.
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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
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I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.
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The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.
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Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
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We are stone enemies when the bell rings
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I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.
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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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What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems
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In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
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His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
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That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
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Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.
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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 have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
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If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
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