Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.
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I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell – ain't no one woman that good.
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The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.
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Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times.
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I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.
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I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason.
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Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.
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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
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If you are not the best, then pretend you are.
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Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people.
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I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the millions of dollars and the title, the ministry. So, I chose the ministry. If I was not sincere, then I would have easily went to Vietnam, boxin' exhibitions, and made a couple of cool million.
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When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.
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Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.
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I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.
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What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems.
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I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.
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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
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I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.
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The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!
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Only the nose knows Where the nose goes When the door close.
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This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.
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I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
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Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.