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To quote Muhammad Ali

Submitted by Roanman on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 07:51

 

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
 
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.  And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
 
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.
 
What keeps me going is goals.
 
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
 
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit.  Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
 
If God ever calls me to a holy war, I want Joe fighting beside me.
 
Ali, "Old Joe Frazier, they told me you were washed up."  Frazier, "They told you wrong pretty boy."
 
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me.  It would be a better world.
 
I got nothing against no Viet Cong.  No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.
 
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
 
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be.  I'm free to be what I want.
 
I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances.  We as Muslims must lead by example.
 
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
 
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
 
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
 
 The man who has no imagination has no wings.
 
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
 
Hating people because of their color is wrong.  And it doesn't matter which color does the hating.  It's just plain wrong.
 
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them.  This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
 
You don't want no pie in the sky when you die.  You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
 
My way of joking is to tell the truth.  That's the funniest joke in the world.

 

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