Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
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That all you got, George?
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I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"
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I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
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If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
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Shut up, I know what I'm doing!
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I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.
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I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
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Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.
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The will must be stronger than the skill.
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What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.
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I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.
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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
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Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?
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Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
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When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.
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What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.
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I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.
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Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
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When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.
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A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
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Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.