M. Ali Quotes

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

Some gems for the greatest of them all

I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

If you are not the best, then pretend you are

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

The sun is always shining someplace.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

The world’s champ should be pretty like me!

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

When my title was taken away boxing died.

Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.

At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

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.

Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Who's gonna dare to be great?

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.

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.

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.