Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I’m just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I’m still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I’m gonna whup him. That was a good bike (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I’m the Heavyweight Champion! Can’t nobody stop me (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
If America were in a just war I’d volunteer for the front line. I’d do the shuffling and win the war (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
People don’t realise what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can’t name a nation where they don’t know me (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 (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I’m so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
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 (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Parkinson’s is my toughest fight. No, it doesn’t hurt. It’s hard to explain. I’m being tested to see if I’ll keep praying, to see if I’ll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
How many push ups do you do? I don’t know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I’m blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you’re put out of a club, you’re blackballed. Angel’s-food cake is white; devil’s-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I can’t see what God’s plan is. I just know I’ve got to live with it (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
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 (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
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 (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who’s driving? The police (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I’m the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Boxing’s a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I’m presentable. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
You got black people in an all-white country and they don’t know nothing about themselves (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‘Why did you do that?’ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, ‘love at first sight.’ (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)