Muhammad Ali Quotes

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time

Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?

Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.

Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves

I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected.

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

At 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.

I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator.

I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.

What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

I want to be the first black man on the moon

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.

The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

Superman don't need no seat belt.

I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.

I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.