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Up Quotes by Muhammad Ali
- If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
- It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
- 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…
- It's not bragging if you can back it up.
- Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
- There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- I shook up the world.
- If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
- I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before…
- Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm…
- I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm…
- Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated…
- The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those…
- I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me
- I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of…
- I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never…
- Shut up, I know what I'm doing!
- Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.
- It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.
- Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the…
- Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
- Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread…
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