Quotes by Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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.
My toughest fight was with my first wife
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.
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.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
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.
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
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.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up
