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During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

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There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

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What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

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When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

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Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

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Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

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I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.

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Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

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If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

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As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

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You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job

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Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

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There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

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I’m gonna show you how great I am.

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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

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Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

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The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed.

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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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So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.

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