"Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight."
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Muhammad Ali quotes (page 26 of 28)
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"I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven."
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"God works through people. It’s not me."
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"I want to be the first black man on the moon"
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"Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped."
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"Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed."
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"Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough."
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"I'm most proud of my family."
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"I'd like to live to a hundred."
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"So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted."
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"Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me"
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"I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent"
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"It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical."
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"Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House."
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"Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag"
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"I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good."
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"Stay away from the ropes"
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"That all you got, George?"
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"Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun."
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"You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically."
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