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| Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven. 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. I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. I am the greatest. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'' I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on. It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish. My toughest fight was with my first wife.Old age is just a record of one's whole life. 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. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. |
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