Muhammad Ali Quotes

I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.

I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.

I’m gonna show you how great I am.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.

If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins.

I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.

I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.

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.

Children make you want to start life over.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.

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.

Stay away from the ropes

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.

We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

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.

Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.

Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right

I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.