Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
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Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
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The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.
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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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I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.
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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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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.
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The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
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All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
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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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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
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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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My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.
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Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.
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Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.
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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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People will know you’re serious when you produce.
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
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The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!
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The world’s champ should be pretty like me!