Muhammad Ali Quotes

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

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• Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Dream
  • Africa
  • King Of The Jungle

• In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Love
  • Competition
  • Victory

• Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Soul
  • Rest
  • Rises

• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Great
  • Humble
  • Be Humble

• It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Killer
  • Gorilla
  • Chiller

• We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Believe
  • Minister

• We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Believe
  • Children

• I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Service
  • Greatest
  • Lip

• I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Gymnasium
  • Resented
  • Roadwork

• The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Children
  • Vietnam
  • Same People

• I did not disregard my culture, if I did, it was the white American culture, and I accepted my true culture, when I accepted Mohammed Ali, because this is a black name, Islam is the black man's religion, and so I would like to say, that I would like to clarify that point that I reclaimed my real culture, and that's being a black man and wearing a black name with a black body, and not a white name, so I would never say that I didn't disown my culture.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Wearing

• I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Won
  • Muslim
  • Gold-Medal

• In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Boxing
  • Muslim
  • Psychiatrist

• Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Live
  • Right
  • Someday

• Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Fight
  • Get Up
  • Sucker

• It's not bragging if you can back it up.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Can
  • Bragging
  • Backup

• If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Surprised
  • Nixon
  • Resigned

• 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.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Brother
  • Washington
  • Champ

• In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Dance
  • I Know
  • Ring

• Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Biggest
  • Blunders
  • Brooding

• Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • History
  • Opposite
  • Athletes

• If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Think
  • Religions
  • Cultures

• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Truths
  • Religions
  • Rivers

• I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Destroy
  • Master
  • Disaster