Muhammad Ali Quotes

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Muhammad Ali

Profession : Boxer

Birth : January 17, 1942

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Muhammad Ali

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

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

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

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

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

Muhammad Ali

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

Muhammad Ali

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

Muhammad Ali

I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.

Muhammad Ali

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

Muhammad Ali

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

Muhammad Ali

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

Muhammad Ali

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Muhammad Ali

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

Muhammad Ali

I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Muhammad Ali

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Muhammad Ali

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

Muhammad Ali

America is the greatest country in the world.

Muhammad Ali

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

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Muhammad Ali