Quotes by Muhammad Ali
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
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.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
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 just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Superman don't need no seat belt.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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.
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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.
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.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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.
