Muhammad Ali Quotes

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.

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.

Stay away from the ropes

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

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.

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

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

Shut up, I know what I'm doing!

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

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

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'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

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

When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.

I don't look like no kiwi bird

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

Superman don't need no seat belt.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

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

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

There live a great man named Joewho was belittled by a loudmouth foe.While his rival would taunt and teaseJoe silently bore the stings.And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

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

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

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

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

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

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

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

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

The sun is always shining someplace.

To the people that have said I'm too small, I'm not fast enough, I don't have what it takes, I'm not strong enough. THANK YOU

People will know you’re serious when you produce.

Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

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

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

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

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

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

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

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

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

I'm pretty as a girl.

I want to be the first black man on the moon