Muhammad Quotes

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.

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.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

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

If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

Allah rendered patience as a help for getting reward.

There's no place like New York to engage so many wonderful people who care about black people.

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.

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.