Quotes By Muhammad Ali

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

What keeps me going is goals.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

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.

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 hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Superman don't need no seat belt.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.