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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'


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MUHAMMAD ALI I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
MUHAMMAD ALI To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S....
MUHAMMAD ALI I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brin...
MUHAMMAD ALI It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
MUHAMMAD ALI The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep...
MUHAMMAD ALI A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have se...
MUHAMMAD ALI I don't have to be what you want me to be.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
MUHAMMAD ALI My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
MUHAMMAD ALI Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep co...
MUHAMMAD ALI I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in...
MUHAMMAD ALI Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI Don't feel sorry for me.
MUHAMMAD ALI I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow,...
MUHAMMAD ALI America is the greatest country in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when J...
MUHAMMAD ALI I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people ...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better...
MUHAMMAD ALI Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating...
MUHAMMAD ALI I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That&#...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's not bragging if you can back it up.
MUHAMMAD ALI Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
MUHAMMAD ALI There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis...
MAHERSHALA ALI My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was al...
MAHERSHALA ALI I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
MAHERSHALA ALI People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
MAHERSHALA ALI In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It'...
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