Muhammad Ali Quotes
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The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
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People will know you’re serious when you produce.
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No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
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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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I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.
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Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.
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Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
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I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.
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You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
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God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.
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Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.
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Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos.
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My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time.
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I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
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A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.
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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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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
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Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.
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I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.