Muhammad Ali Quotes (83 Quotes)

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

Whereas the degrees of rationality vary and some minds are distinguished over others, these clerks, if not convinced of what the Pasha has given them, must turn to their associates with the problem, and if all see an excess or shortcoming in the matter, then they should turn to the Pasha and present the requisite information.

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

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

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.

Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.

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

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

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'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.

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

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

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

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

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

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.

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

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

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

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet on his golf game.

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.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

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.

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

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

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.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.

I don't look like no kiwi bird.

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

Superman don't need no seat belt. Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.'