Muhammed Ali's greatest quotes

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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just test pilots. I'm in a world of my own. Now you see me, now you don't, George thinks he will but I know he won't. On George Foreman. I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin hell but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. I'm not the greatest, I'm the double greatest. I'm the best. I just haven't played yet. It's the repition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. Boxing is dying because everybody is so quiet - what boxing needs is more Cassius Clays. 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. 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.

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