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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
Told
Paterson
Whoop
Floyd
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I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!
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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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My toughest opponent has always been me.
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
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The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?
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I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.
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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
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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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Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
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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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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
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We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.
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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
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You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.
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I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.
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They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
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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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There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.
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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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