quotes by Boxer Quotes

“Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.”

“Things can change. Life is all a learning process.”

“Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.”

“Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.”

“Superman don't need no seat belt.”

“I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.”

“As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.”

“If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.”

“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

“I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.”

“Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.”

“My principles are more important than the money or my title.”

“Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything”

“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.”

“I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.”

“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 wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.”

“My power is discombobulatingly devastating.”

“No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.”

“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”

“When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.”

“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.”

“Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.”

“I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.”

“I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.”

“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.”

“There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.”

“The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.”

“Children make you want to start life over.”

“We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight”

“Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.”

“I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?”

“I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”

“Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.”

“Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.”

“Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.”

“The sun is always shining someplace.”

“I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.”

“Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage”

“Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.”

“I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.”

“Don't feel sorry for me.”

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

“Some gems for the greatest of them all”

“Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.”

“I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.”

“My toughest fight was with my first wife.”

“I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.”

“Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.”

“I'm the fastest thing on two feet.”