Muhammad Ali Quotes

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

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

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

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

Impossible is nothing.

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

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

If you are not the best, then pretend you are

The sun is always shining someplace.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

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

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.

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

I shook up the world.

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.

Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

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.

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

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.

Some gems for the greatest of them all

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

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

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Who's gonna dare to be great?

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.

The world’s champ should be pretty like me!

When my title was taken away boxing died.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

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.

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.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

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