Muhammad Ali Quotes

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

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.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

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

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

Shut up, I know what I'm doing!

I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.

I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

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.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.

We are stone enemies when the bell rings

I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.

In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens.

I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.

The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

People will know you’re serious when you produce.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.