Muhammad Ali Quotes

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.

In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose

I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

He's too ugly to be the champ!

When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night

I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.

I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches

It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.

I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.

You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I didn't deny nothing I believe. I'm still the same everything.

I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.

I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again

I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.

In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em