"If I kept my mouth shut, because..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

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

“My toughest opponent has always been me.”

“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.”

“If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.”

“I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.”

“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.”

“Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.”

“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

“I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.”