"Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder."
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Muhammad Ali quotes (page 12 of 28)
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"When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions."
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"Impossible is nothing."
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"Stumbling is the fruit of haste."
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"The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats."
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"When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich."
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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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"I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call."
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"I shook up the world."
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"Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare."
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"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."
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"I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years."
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"If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world."
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"Some gems for the greatest of them all"
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"I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients."
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"The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction."
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"I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn."
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"The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best."
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"You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time."
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"Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone."
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