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Muhammad Ali Quotes

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"I'm so fast, I turn off the light switch in my hotel room and I'm in bed before the room gets dark." - Muhammad Ali
"Ali was exalted by the people that agree with him. He was bigger than sports."
"Muhammad Ali wasn't just the greatest man to enter a boxing ring; he was one of the greatest men to enter the world."
"Boxing was blessed to have Muhammad Ali... he wanted people to love each other as much as they loved him."
"I mean, when you focus on him as a human, and you think about what he meant at that time and place, the things he said, the poems he came up with, just the overall brilliance of Muhammad Ali, the guts, the guts to have the strength mentally, physically, and emotionally to go against the grain at the time that he did it."
"I remember there was this fight taking place... Muhammad Ali and he was fighting this new young brutal George Foreman. They called it the Rumble in the Jungle."
"Muhammad Ali came out and defended himself and didn't throw any punches for many... and then all of a sudden, about the eighth round, Muhammad Ali let loose and he knocked out this young, young 23-year-old world heavyweight champion George Foreman."
"Muhammad Ali was the greatest human being I've ever met."
"Ali changed the world, he's a great influencer."
"Muhammad Ali was successful in sports and generosity."
"Expect the best. Muhammad Ali said, 'I told myself I was the greatest before I even was.'"
"Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman during the legendary Rumble in the Jungle bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, to become the World Heavyweight Champion for a second time."
"I believe Muhammad Ali wasn't just the greatest boxer, but one of the greatest human beings."
"Everybody wants to be Muhammad Ali, if you're an athlete."
"Nobody has to have any swan songs for Muhammad Ali."
"Muhammad Ali was one who would sacrifice himself for the greater good."
"Ali for the last time turn back the clock you didn't rely on hanging on the ropes he danced and completely put on a boxing show."
"The past 15 years has produced the most exciting, the most marvelously unpredictable, by far the most innovative, and unquestionably the fastest world heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. He is the magnificent Muhammad Ali."
"I'm not only a fighter, I'm a poet, I'm a prophet, I'm the resurrector, I'm the savior of the boxing world."
"Muhammad Ali has recaptured the heavyweight championship a full 10 years after he first shot the boxing world by upsetting Sonny Liston in 1964."
"Muhammad Ali at 12 years old when he first took up boxing."
"Muhammad Ali changed the whole dynamic of the business side."
"Muhammad Ali won his fight with the US government."
"Ali refused, saying that he wasn't going to let them send him ten thousand miles away to die fighting people who wanted to be a part of the war just as little as he did."
"Ali always made a point to let his sparring partners deliver multiple hard blows to both his body and his head during his practice sessions."
"Despite the storied legacy of Muhammad Ali, it seems the mystery of whether outside figures influenced the 1965 fight between Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali will remain unsolved."
"Ali refused induction into the U.S. army at the height of the war in Vietnam."
"Ali's case went to the Supreme Court who ruled it unanimously in his favor."
"Ali returned to the ring to fight for peace, tolerance, and equality."
"Muhammad Ali is without a doubt the greatest boxer of all time."
"Muhammad Ali would wake up every single day at 4:30 a.m."
"Muhammad Ali loved to run, it was a core part of his training."
"Muhammad Ali was famous for his trash-talking."
"There was so much more to him than just being the boxer."
"He floats like a butterfly, it stings like a bee. Who else but Muhammad Ali?"
"Muhammad Ali, ladies and gentlemen, here certainly is more than an athlete."
"He faked out being Muhammad Ali, did a convincing job. That's some bad [ __ ]."
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. There will never be another Muhammad Ali."
"Two world heavyweight title trilogies, it's only been me Muhammad Ali done that."
"Ali did it like nobody else. For me, he was the greatest fighter from combat sports of all time."
"What made Muhammad Ali the greatest fighter of all time was the fact that he was the actual best boxer, but it was who he was as a person and the impact that he made as a person and how far that impact went."
"Unbelievably courageous, that's number one word that I think of when I think of Muhammad Ali."
"Just what you thought that it was slowing down, Ali lands a heavy left hand."
"Fly like a bird, sting like a bee, Muhammad Ali, the biggest legend."
"And now it gives me great pleasure to introduce the man who revived boxing and in my opinion is still the heavyweight champion of the world: Muhammad Ali."
"I played a character in 'Enter the Dragon' that would emulate Muhammad Ali." - Jim Kelly
"I've been kidnapped and hugged by the three-time boxing heavyweight champion in the world, a man who became a very cool friend, Muhammad Ali."
"Ali showing the effects of advanced Parkinson's disease captured the essence of the Olympic spirit as he bravely lit the ceremonial torch to the opening of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia."
"Pretty good. Like Muhammad said, it's not bragging if you can back it up."
"Muhammad Ali is one of the great self-created characters in American history."
"Muhammad Ali will always be America."
"Ali was one of those once-in-a-thousand-years individuals."
"Ali's impact was not limited to those of a certain race or of a certain religion or of a certain mindset."
"Muhammad Ali is one of the greatest Americans who've ever left."
"Muhammad Ali, that probably should be talked about."
"Muhammad Ali fought everybody back in the day. That's why they say he's the greatest."
"Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." - Muhammad Ali
"Ali stopping the fearsome George Foreman to recapture the heavyweight title."
"Muhammad Ali was the greatest, and we like the idea saying he was the greatest."
"Looks like a butterfly, stings like a bee - Muhammad Ali."
"But arguably, it was his rivalry and shared trilogy with the greatest, Muhammad Ali, that will pit Frazier down as an all-time great."
"Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
"The legend of Muhammad Ali was trained in this neighborhood."
"Muhammad Ali used to say that this division is caused by the devil."
"This is the greatest of all Champions; his name is Muhammad Ali."
"Sting like a bee, Muhammad Ali, you can't touch what you can't see."
"Rule the ring and bow to no one, Muhammad Ali, King of the World."
"Muhammad Ali said that Islam is peace and not violence."
"We saw the rope-a-dope for the first time utilized by Muhammad Ali."
"Who is the BBC Sports Personality of the 20th century? It is Muhammad Ali."
"In the annals of sports history, Muhammad Ali's training shoes from the Thriller in Manila takes Center Stage."
"Muhammad Ali, a poet and a man with a tremendous sense of humor."
"Muhammad Ali, a political activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement."
"He was sui generis; he was singular; he was unique; he was Ali."
"Muhammad Ali is the greatest fighter pound for pound that ever lived."
"I'm Muhammad Ali; float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
"Muhammad Ali was born in 1942 in the state of Kentucky."
"Muhammad Ali became a social and political activist during the 1960s."
"Forget the trappings, as a fight, remember that's the one where Ali said it was the closest thing to death."
"One of the greatest athletes in the history of this country, and the presence of greatness here tonight, Muhammad Ali with us."

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