Muhammad Ali Quotes
-
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
-
Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
-
Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.
-
No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!
-
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.
-
I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.
-
Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.
-
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
-
I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.
-
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
-
I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.
-
When my title was taken away boxing died.
-
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
-
I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent.
-
If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
-
Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
-
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?"
-
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
-
Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.
-
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
-
To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.
-
Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me.
-
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
-
When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.