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Ali Speak
January 17, 2007
No athlete has been as eloquent as Muhammad Ali. The man could speak, and how!
Some of his most memorable quotes:
It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.
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.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on. -- Ali, before his 1965 fight with Floyd Patterson
That's all you got, George? -- What Ali whispered into George Foreman's ear in a late round clinch during the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire in 1971.
I am American. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky -- my name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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