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I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
Muhammad Ali
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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
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Cassius Marcellus Clay
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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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The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.
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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...
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For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
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Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.
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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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Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.
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I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again
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I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.
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We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
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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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You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
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The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
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Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!
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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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It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
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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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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
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