Quotes By Muhammad Ali

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

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.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other 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 will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

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

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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

What keeps me going is goals.

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