Muhammad Ali Quotes
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I don’t consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I’m not nothing like that. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I’m so bad I make medicine sick! (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I’m gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain’t going to die easy (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I’m going after your job (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I don’t see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Black men - one might be the president. Well, America’s in too much trouble - I don’t want that job now. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods? (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
It’s impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight’s all right and smooth I’m still thinking, ‘what if the engine blow up?’ ‘What if a fool’s got a bomb on it?’ (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
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. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It’s about stability for the future. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn’t just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
What’s really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn’t just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
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. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
There’s never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You’d take one shot from him and you were sure he’d have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer. (Muhammad Ali Quotes)
In a competition of love we’ll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first (Muhammad Ali Quotes)