Muhammad Ali Quotes

I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

Muhammad Ali

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• The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Creativity
  • Efficiency

• I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Man

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Man
  • Black
  • Traditions

• Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

  

  Earl Butz
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Colorful

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Feel
  • Coming

• There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

  

  Hal Price
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Me
  • Support
  • Ideas

• There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Live
  • Adventure

• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Free
  • You
  • Retirement

• And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Red

• I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Thinking
  • Ems
  • Provocative

• Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Universe
  • Chinese
  • Novel

• I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Up
  • Children
  • Experience

• I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Father
  • Child
  • Decisions