Muhammad Ali Best 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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best. — Muhammad Ali

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

If you are not the best, then pretend you are — Muhammad Ali

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

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

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. — Muhammad Ali

The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

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.

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

I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar. — Darius McCrary

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. — Muhammad Ali

The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

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

Islam's all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if it be in China, Yusef, EVEN IN CHINA! And we've reduced our religion to fuckin' academics. The guy who knows Islam best is the one who really hits the books hard, learns his shit. Muslims brag about having no priests but we're getting molested by scholars. Yusef Ali, books are not Allah. Even a book by or from Allah is not Allah. — Michael Muhammad Knight

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong. — Muhammad Ali

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

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