I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?

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Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

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I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

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When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.

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Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

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My toughest opponent has always been me.

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Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

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There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

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