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“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

Source: The Playboy Interview, Playboy, November 1975

Context In a long interview published by Playboy a month after his third fight with Joe Frazier, he talked about how his outlook had changed since his youth.

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Muhammad AliUnited States · 1942–2016
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