Quotes on Boxing
“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”
-Muhammad Ali
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
– Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali
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.
Muhammad Ali
Quotes on Life
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila
Ali, before the “Thrilla in Manila”
Before fight against Frazier
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali
Quotes on Being the Greatest
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali
I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet.”
Ali On playing golf
Superman don’t need no seat belt.
Muhammad Ali
Quotes on Religion
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
Quotes on Humour
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali
Only the nose knows, Where the nose goes, When the door close.
Muhammad Ali
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