Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.
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I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
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Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
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Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right.
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America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.
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The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
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Children make you want to start life over.
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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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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.
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I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.
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Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
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Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
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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.
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I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
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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.
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People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
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All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
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I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history.
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.
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I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.
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It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
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I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again.