Muhammad Ali Quotes
-
Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right.
-
If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.
-
I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.
-
The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.
-
My main fight is for freedom and equality.
-
I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent.
-
There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.
-
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.
-
Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm most proud of my family.
-
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
-
I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
-
People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
-
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
-
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.
-
Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
-
The sun is always shining someplace.
-
Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
-
Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
-
Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.
-
There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
-
Don't count the days, make the days count.