"Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up."
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." "
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." "
"I'm so fast that last night I turned the light switch off in my bedroom and I was in bed before the room was dark."
"I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I’m Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain’t gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest."
"My face is so pretty, you don't see a scar, which proves I'm the king of the ring by far."
"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."
"Joe's gonna be smokin' an' I ain't even jokin but I'll be peckin' and a pokin' and I'll pour water on that smokin'. Now this might astound and amaze ya but I will destroy Jo Frazier."
"Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."
"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
"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."
Quotes on Being the Greatest
"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
"I'm the best. I just haven't played yet."
Quotes on Life
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's 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."
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life".
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."
Ali On playing golf
"Superman don't need no seat belt."
Quotes on Religion
"I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace."
"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."
Quotes on Humour
"My toughest fight was with my first wife."
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."
"Only the nose knows, Where the nose goes, When the door close."
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."
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