Muhammad Ali Quotes

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Muhammad Ali

Profession : Boxer

Birth : January 17, 1942

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

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Muhammad Ali

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

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

Muhammad Ali

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

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.

Muhammad Ali

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

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

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Muhammad Ali

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Muhammad Ali

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

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

Muhammad Ali

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

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

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Muhammad Ali