Cassius Clay Quotes - Page 2

• Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Thinking, Boxing

  Twitter post from May 30, 2011

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• I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

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• Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

  Muhammad Ali

  Cassius, Limbs, Like Me

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• Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rocks, Climbing, Boxing

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• If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

  David Bowie

  Boys, Want, Ifs

  Song: Sweet Thing, Album: Diamond Dogs, 1974

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• Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hate, Inspiration, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 02, 2013

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• I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

  Muhammad Ali

  Teacher, Religious, Mean

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

  Rand Paul

  Cousin, Heart, Agreement

  "Rand Paul Speaks of Slavery, Spending and Compromise in First Senate Speech" by Wes Barrett, www.foxnews.com. February 02, 2011.

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• Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Heart, Boxing

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2011

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• When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Names, White

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2016.

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• Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

  Muhammad Ali

  Change, Money, War

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2010

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• Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Names, White

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1977.

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• Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

  David Bowie

  Boys, Wish, Clay

  Song: Candidate, Album: Diamond Dogs

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• The world’s champ should be pretty like me!

  Muhammad Ali

  World, Should, Like Me

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• Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

  Floyd Patterson

  Boxing, Black, Clay

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• He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Hate, White, People

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• I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Self Confidence, Vanity

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2010

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• I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

  Muhammad Ali

  People, Boxing, Wish

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2010

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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.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.

  Liam Gallagher

  Mirrors, Looks, Fugitive

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