Muhammad Ali Quotes

I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.

I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.

Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.

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.

I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight

Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country.

Who's gonna dare to be great?

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.

I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.

There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.

Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

That all you got, George?

He's too ugly to be the champ!

I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

I'm most proud of my family.

Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

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.

I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

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.

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.