Muhammad Ali quotes

Muhammad Ali

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
Muhammad Ali
You Service Earth Your
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali
Life Courage Risks Nothing
"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."
Muhammad Ali
Stone Medicine Rock Sick
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
Muhammad Ali
You Ahead Climb Your Mountains
"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."
Muhammad Ali
Light Night Dark Hotel
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
Long Fight Dance Road
"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."
Muhammad Ali
Repetition Things Belief Deep
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."
Muhammad Ali
Life Man World Who He
"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
Muhammad Ali
Great I Am Said Greatest
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
Muhammad Ali
Man Power Soul Win
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali
Man Imagination Wings Who
"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."
Muhammad Ali
Motivational Truth Me You
"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."
Muhammad Ali
You Great Humble I Am
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali
Friendship You Anything School Learn
"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."
Muhammad Ali
Me You Better Wake Up
"There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win."
Muhammad Ali
Fight Win Pleasure Pleasures
"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."
Muhammad Ali
Life You People Day
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
Muhammad Ali
People Sports Fly Sand Job
"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."
Muhammad Ali
Only Greatest Round Double
"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."
Muhammad Ali
You Age Think Old
"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
Muhammad Ali
Faith Myself People Challenges Lack
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Muhammad Ali
Butterfly Bee Like Float
"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."
Muhammad Ali
Life Me People Believe
"It's not bragging if you can back it up."
Muhammad Ali
You Back Up Bragging
"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
Muhammad Ali
You Bread Something Make
"I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'"
Muhammad Ali
Me Man You People
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."
Muhammad Ali
Good You Silence Think Golden
"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."
Muhammad Ali
Religion Water Religions Just
"It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila."
Muhammad Ali
Will Gorilla Killer Get
"What keeps me going is goals."
Muhammad Ali
Me Goals Going Keeps
"The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters."
Muhammad Ali
God Peace Who Like
"My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am."
Muhammad Ali
Great Fault Only Realize
"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."
Muhammad Ali
World People Home Humble
"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."
Muhammad Ali
Hope Me You Night
"Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner."
Muhammad Ali
Work God Fight Allah
"If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge."
Muhammad Ali
Life You Revenge Fight
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Muhammad Ali
People Matter Wrong Just
"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."
Muhammad Ali
Change Poverty Map Wars
"I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace."
Muhammad Ali
Peace Religion Believe Allah Islam
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."
Muhammad Ali
Truth World Way Tell Joke
"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."
Muhammad Ali
Myself Man Believe I Am
"No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room."
Muhammad Ali
Loser Room Say Knows
"I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat."
Muhammad Ali
Beautiful Way Medicine Sick
"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."
Muhammad Ali
Love Me World People
"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing."
Muhammad Ali
Light Never Dark Only
"Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head."
Muhammad Ali
Tears Ugly Back Go
"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won."
Muhammad Ali
Shadow Boxing Won Seen George
"Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one."
Muhammad Ali
Beautiful People I Am Name
"My principles are more important than the money or my title."
Muhammad Ali
Money Principles Important More

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