Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali /ɑːˈliː/was an American Olympic and professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBoxer
Date of Birth17 January 1942
CityLouisville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
rope
Stay away from the ropes
cassius limbs cassius-clay
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!
champion heavyweights world
It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman
proud my-family
I'm most proud of my family
brooding blunders
Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder
heavyweights world underwater
Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
lynching earthquakes america
America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes- there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.
pork stuff
Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
worthwhile-things discipline selfless
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
jinnah cold feels
When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.
lynching years two
So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.
cocky greatness names
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.
guarantees-that people generations
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose