Muhammad Ali Quotes
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You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
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In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
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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.
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I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.
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I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
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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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Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.
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When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.
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They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
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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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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
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Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.
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The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
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What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.
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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
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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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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 would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
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I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.
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God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
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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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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.