Muhammad Ali quotes

Born
January 17, 1942 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.

Died
June 3, 2016.

Occupation
Professional boxer.

Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century.

Don’t count the days; make the days count.
– Mohammed Ali

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

What keeps me going is goals.
– Mohammed Ali

A man who has no imagination has no wings.
– Mohammed Ali

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.
– Mohammed Ali

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
– Mohammed Ali

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.
– Mohammed Ali

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.
– Mohammed Ali

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

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
– Mohammed Ali

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
– Mohammed Ali

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
– Mohammed Ali

I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.
– Mohammed Ali

It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.
– Mohammed Ali

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
– Mohammed Ali

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
– Mohammed Ali

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
– Mohammed Ali

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

Don’t feel sorry for me.
– Mohammed Ali

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

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
– Mohammed Ali

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
– Mohammed 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.
– Mohammed Ali

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.
– Mohammed Ali

I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest.
– Mohammed Ali

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
– Mohammed Ali

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
– Mohammed Ali

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
– Mohammed Ali

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

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

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
– Mohammed Ali

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

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

I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
– Mohammed Ali

Braggin’ is when a person says something and can’t do it. I do what I say.
– Mohammed Ali

I’m young; I’m handsome; I’m fast. I can’t possibly be beat.
– Mohammed Ali

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

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