My toughest fight was with my first wife.
MUHAMMAD ALII am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
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If you are not the best, then pretend you are.
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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 the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
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All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.
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If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.
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I’m a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won’t hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.
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Home is the place you can go when you’re whipped.
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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
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To succeed, all I need to do is suffer.
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My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that’s not easy.
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You lose nothing when fighting for a cause. In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about.
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Tolerance and understanding won’t ‘trickle down’ in our society any more than wealth does.
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I’ve never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
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It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
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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.
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I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
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The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
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It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
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When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.
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