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Action(s)
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What keeps me going is goals.
-Muhammad Ali
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Age
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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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Boxing
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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
-Muhammad Ali
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
-Muhammad Ali
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It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
-Muhammad Ali
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Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
-Muhammad Ali
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
-Muhammad Ali
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
-Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
-Muhammad Ali
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Confidence
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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
-Muhammad Ali
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Determination
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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
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Friends
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali
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Humility
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
-Muhammad Ali
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Learning
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
-Muhammad Ali
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Loss
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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
-Muhammad Ali
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Planning
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I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
-Muhammad Ali
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Pride
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I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
-Muhammad Ali
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Protest
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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I
http://www.isreview.org/issues/33/muhammadali.shtml
-Muhammad Ali
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Racism
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Where do you think I'd be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public take notice? I'd be poor and I'd probably be down in my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying
-Muhammad Ali
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Risk
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
-Muhammad Ali
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Success & Failure
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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, After losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973
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Training
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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
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Books by and about Muhammad Ali