Muhammad Ali Quotes

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

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.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

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.

You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200 years from now we all will be a beautiful cream color. He really believes it. One believe that gittin' some rifles and shootin' up the country is gonna solve it, another believes that education. One day we'll be the president. One believe that we gotta git into the white man's pockets and get all the money.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good.

Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest.

To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.