M. Ali Quotes

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

Only the nose knows Where the nose goes When the door close.

Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.

True giving happens when we give from our heart.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.

Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.

Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.

Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome, but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home. A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight, but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I’m gonna show you how great I am.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.

I'm the fastest thing on two feet.

So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

"I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. I shook up the world! I want justice..."

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.