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“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Funny #Sports #Jobs
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“There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#People #Reason
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“A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Car #Mexican #Police
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“I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Thinking #Chance
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“I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Ohio #Rivers #Black History
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“My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Purpose #Praying #Easy
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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Inspirational #Motivational #Fitness
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“I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Children #School #Men
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“Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Firsts #Steps #Beginners
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“I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Fighting #Relation
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“I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Army #Two #Jail
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“Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Fighting #Media #People
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Life #Motivational #Happy Birthday
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“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.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Giving #Charity #God Bless
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“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Inspirational #Successful #Carpe Diem
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“I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Muscles
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“I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Justice #Trying #Needs
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“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.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Men #White #Worry
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“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Change #Money #War
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“Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Winning #Thug #Names
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“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Fighting #Greatness #Mind
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“I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Inspirational #Life #Success
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“You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.”
-- Muhammad Ali
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“The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Strong #Men #He Man
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“Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Inspirational #Motivational #Dream
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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Inspirational #Sports #Determination
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“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Motivational #Success #Softball
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“There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#There Comes A Time #Persons
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“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Running #Courage #Famous Inspirational
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“Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.”
-- Muhammad Ali
#Religious #Greatness #Names
