Quotes By Muhammad Ali

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

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.

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

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

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

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

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

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

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

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

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

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.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

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.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

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.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.