Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
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I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
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Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
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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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It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
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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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Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.
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I don't look like no kiwi bird.
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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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No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
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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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My definition of evil is unfriendliness.
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I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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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.
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I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.
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We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
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I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
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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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Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.
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My main fight is for freedom and equality.