"He's too ugly to be the champ!"
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Muhammad Ali quotes (page 18 of 28)
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"Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night"
"Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people"
"I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches"
"I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white."
"We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy."
"I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous."
"It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman."
"The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races."
"Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it."
"It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him."
"You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would."
"I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away."
"Women are not equal with men, that's sure. When the woman is in danger she always looks to the man for help. We are superior by nature. The black or white woman needn't worry in life because the world is ruled by the white man."
"Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous."
"I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!"
"There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali."
"Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free."
"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"
"I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train."