If you are not the best, then pretend you are Muhammad Ali More Quotes by Muhammad Ali More Quotes From Muhammad Ali I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail. Muhammad Ali jailboxingmean I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight. Muhammad Ali fightingsorrynames I said I was the greatest, not the smartest. Muhammad Ali great-boxingboxingsaid Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough. Muhammad Ali boxersboxingkids Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country? Muhammad Ali fightingwarcountry There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it. Muhammad Ali turning-50birthdaypeople I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching. Muhammad Ali hurtwinningmen We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies. Muhammad Ali bossblackmen I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me. Muhammad Ali fightingmencountry Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices Muhammad Ali supportsickyears That's okay, I'm still the Greatest. Muhammad Ali great-boxingokayboxing Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, he went throughout the Holy City of Mecca to dine and wine with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and all of the black, mainly the rulers of the Islamic countries. Muhammad Ali islamicwinecountry Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs. Muhammad Ali dogwhiteblue There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking. Muhammad Ali fellowsshadowtalking I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. Muhammad Ali teacherbelieveschool We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle. Muhammad Ali whitewinningwar Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah. Muhammad Ali nameswhitemen White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader. Muhammad Ali whitepeoplepast I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule. Muhammad Ali haterealbook I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat! Muhammad Ali realkingsyears
