Muhammad Ali Quotes

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Muhammad Ali

Profession : Boxer

Birth : January 17, 1942

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

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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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It's not bragging if you can back it up.

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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

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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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What keeps me going is goals.

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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

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My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

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I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

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It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

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The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

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A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

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I don't have to be what you want me to be.

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Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

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