"Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali
Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
More by Muhammad Ali
“If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
“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.”
“Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.”
More on Self Perception
“At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.”
“But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes”
“It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.”
More on Aging
“For poetry, he's past his prime,He takes an hour to find a rhyme;His fire is out, his wit decayed,His fancy sunk, his muse a jade.I'd have him throw away his pen,But there's no talking to some men.”
“You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.”
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”