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Muhammad Ali Quotes
A small selection of rememerable quotes from
Muhammad Ali:
"It's something
that will go down in history, like the left hook"
Ali speaking on the Ali shuffle.
"I'm gonna have
to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy"
"What's My Name?
What's My Name?"
To opponent Ernie Terrell, who had refused
to call him Muhammad Ali.
"The only place
they can take my title away from me is in the ring. And nobody
can do it there, either"
Reaction to WBA stripping him of his title
for refusing induction into the army.
"Let the man that
wins go to the backwoods of Georgia and Alabama or to Sweden
or Africa. Let him stick his head in an elementary school;
let him walk back down an alley at night. Let him stop under
a street lamp where some small boys are playing and let him
say: What's my name? and see what they really say. Everybody
knows me and knows I am the champion"
On plans to find a new heavyweight champion
after being stripped.
"It was pretty
bad. But I was great"
On the musical Buck White in which Ali played
a starring role.
"I hear your talkin
around that you can whup me. Well, here I is"
Speaking to a truck driver. Ali later drove
off laughing
"You just keep
whupping those guys in the ring, and I'll keep fighting Uncle
Sam and one day we'll make a lot of money together"
Speaking to Joe Frazier on the telephone.
"Nobody has to
tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fightin'
one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of em, here
is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer...My mission
is to bring freedom to 30 million black people"
On his comeback fight with Jerry Quarry
in 1970.
"You took my title
away. I'm gonna make you give it back!"
Speaking to Eddie Dooley of the New York
State Commission It had been Dooley's decision to deny Ali
a license to fight and the other boxing commissions quickly
followed suit.
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