Muhammad Ali Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Kentucky Quotes

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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I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.

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I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.

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You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.

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Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

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White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.

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There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

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Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.

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I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

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Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

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Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right

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I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

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I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

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

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If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

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The will must be stronger than the skill.

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I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

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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

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People will know you’re serious when you produce.

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