I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"
Muhammad AliThe greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most
Muhammad AliAt home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad AliI 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.
Muhammad Ali