Cassius Quotes - Page 2

• I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Greatness, Accomplish Nothing, Marketing

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2010

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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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• If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Sports

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2010

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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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• No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Reflection

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.336, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Limbs, Cassius Clay, Like Me

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• 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 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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• If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Mosquitoes, Asks

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Apr 04, 2014

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

  Floyd Patterson

  Boxing, Black, Clay

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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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• Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, People, Judging

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• When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Judging

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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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• 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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• Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
  [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

  Tacitus

  Portraits, Brutus, Absence

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• Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kids, Mirrors, Kentucky

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Aug 10, 2015

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• Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Country, Jesus, Men

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• The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.

  Tacitus

  Names, Twenties, Brutus

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• If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

  Sonny Liston

  Clay, Murder, Liable

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