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Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tel
Author: Jeanette Winterson
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I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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I'm a baaaadd man!!
Author: Muhammad Ali
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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I am America. 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.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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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
Author: Muhammad Ali
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The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.']
Author: Muhammad Ali
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I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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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.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. Rrelating boxing advice he received from Archie Moore on posturing before a fight.
Author: George Foreman
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