61 Quotes by Muhammad Ali
- When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.
- When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
- If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
- What keeps me going is goals.
- It's not bragging if you can back it up.
- It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
- If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
- My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
- I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
- I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
- I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
- I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
- It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
- The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
- There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
- To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
- Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
- It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
- There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- My toughest fight was with my first wife.
- The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
- No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
- Superman don't need no seat belt.
- Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
- 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.
- It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
- 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.
- A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
- At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
- Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
- I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
- Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
- I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
- I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
- I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
- I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
- Don't count the days, make the days count.
- The power of imagination makes us infinite in a world filled with limitations.
- Don't count the days; make the days count.
- A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.
- A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
- A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress incredibly well
- Don't count the days, make the days count
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore their power to change it.
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential.
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small minds who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
- Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men and women who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
- The man who has no imagination has no wings
- Love is the only weapon we gotta fight with. In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving healthcare to men.
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small-minded men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it
- Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given rather than to explore the power they have to change it.
- Don't count days, make the days count.
- Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision.
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