Ali Muhammad Quotes & Sayings

The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one who most impressed me. It's tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he's one of the most intelligent people on the planet. — Carmelo Anthony

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. — Muhammad Ali

Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things. — Muhammad Ali

You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would. — Muhammad Ali

We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we loved each other. I am not closer to anyone else in this life than I am to Muhammad Ali. Why? We were forged by that first fight in Zaire, and our lives are indelibly linked by memories and photographs, as young men and old men. — George Foreman

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall

The unprecedented 3rd Heavyweight Championship Title won by Muhammad Ali, his final victory, will stand as one of the greatest human achievements in all of sporting history". — Paul Leo Faso

The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman. — Howard Cosell

But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all. — Muhammad Ali

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times — Muhammad Ali

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist. — Muhammad Ali

Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is. — George Foreman

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier — Muhammad Ali

The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith. — Muhammad Ali

Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. - MUHAMMAD ALI — Hal Elrod

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best. — Muhammad Ali

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster. — Muhammad Ali

Recognize how every moment of our journey is an important part of the growth of our soul. I — Muhammad Ali

In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour ... In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man. — Alex Haley

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing. — Muhammad Ali

I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it. — Muhammad Ali

When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did. — Muhammad Ali

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans. — Muhammad Ali

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali. — Dan Hill

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things. — Muhammad Ali

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either. — Muhammad Ali

Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

A man who views the world the same ... — Muhammad Ali

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now. — Muhammad Ali

How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting — Muhammad Ali

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. — Muhammad Ali

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a <>. — Muhammad Ali

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest! — Muhammad Ali

If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years. — Muhammad Ali

Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press. — Muhammad Ali

The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. — Muhammad Ali

How many times have you seen Muslims quote an ayah of the Quran and their eyes were full of anger? Let me tell you, that is not how Angel Jibril brought the Quran to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and that's not how our Prophet recited the Quran to his people. — Nouman Ali Khan

I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat! — Muhammad Ali

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong, — Muhammad Ali

I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me. — Muhammad Ali

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave. — Muhammad Ali

The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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. — Muhammad Ali

I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?' — Muhammad Ali

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions. — Muhammad Ali

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet. — Muhammad Ali

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it. — Muhammad Ali

Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves — Muhammad Ali

Who would have thought, when they came to the fight, that they'd witness a launchin' of a black satellite — Muhammad Ali

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school. — Muhammad Ali

I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat. — Muhammad Ali

We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honourable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation ... — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe. — Muhammad Ali

Ali ruled from 656 to 661 but believed Muhammad intended him to succeed him originally in 632, rather than Abu Bakr. — Zephyros Press

If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing. — Muhammad Ali

You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job — Muhammad Ali

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali. — Muhammad Ali

I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries. — Muhammad Ali

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty. — Muhammad Ali

Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news. — Muhammad Ali

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them. — Muhammad Ali

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him. — Muhammad Ali

Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?
They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.

And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. — Hunter S. Thompson

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong. — Muhammad Ali

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Most people don't pray until they're in trouble.
When people need help they pray a lot.
But after they get what they want, they slow down.
If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean.
Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind. — Muhammad Ali

This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. — Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi

What you're thinking is what you're becoming. — Muhammad Ali

Only the nose knows
Where the nose goes
When the door close. — Muhammad Ali

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all. — Muhammad Ali

I still can't believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I've never forgotten it. — Mike Tyson

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

I'm gonna show you how great I am. — Muhammad Ali

You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own. — Muhammad Ali

Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House. — Muhammad Ali

In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first — Muhammad Ali

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats. — Muhammad Ali

My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time — 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

Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined. — Angelo Dundee

I'm personally not a Muhammad Ali fan. — Carl Froch

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven. — Muhammad Ali

There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing. — Roy Jones Jr.

My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it. — Muhammad Ali

Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you. — Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali

God works through people. It's not me. — Muhammad Ali

Failure is a word unknown to me. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. — Muhammad Ali

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums. — Oliver Reed

It's not bragging if you can back it up. — Muhammad Ali

Expect the best, prepare for the worst. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life — Muhammad Ali