Muhammad Ali Best Boxing Quotes & Sayings

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages — Muhammad Ali

I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future. — Shayne Ward

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him. — Muhammad Ali

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

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest. — Muhammad Ali

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head. — Muhammad Ali

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life. — Muhammad Ali

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest. — Muhammad Ali

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. — Muhammad Ali

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. — Muhammad Ali

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

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say. — Muhammad Ali

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky. — Muhammad Ali

Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest. — Muhammad Ali

Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem. — Muhammad Ali

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back. — Muhammad Ali

The show was bad, but I was great — Muhammad Ali

I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept. — 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

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven. — Muhammad Ali

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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