Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years."
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Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
Mike Tyson
Professional Boxer
"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."
Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent."
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"In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess."
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"Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters."
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"Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent."
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"I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating"
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"When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing."
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"I had a moment of religious epiphanosity."
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"I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right."
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"The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world."
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"If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread."
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"I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong."
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"All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps"
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"I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly"
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"I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'"
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"How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!"
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"I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine."
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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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"A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself."
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"Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art"
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"From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is."
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"I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape."
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