"Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions"
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Muhammad Ali quotes (page 7 of 28)
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"You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around."
"Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish."
"The more we help others, the more we help ourselves"
"Home is the place you can go when you're whipped."
"I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want."
"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."
"I don't look like no kiwi bird"
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."
"Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death."
"I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people."
"In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins."
"I'm going to show you how great I am!"
"Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick."
"I run on the road long before I dance under the lights."
"I'm so mean I make medicine sick!"
"Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone"
"I don't have to be what you want me to be."
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."
"Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead."