Muhammad Ali Quotes

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

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.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

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.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.

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

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.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."