Muhammad Ali Quotes
15 quotations by Muhammad Ali
My toughest fight was with my first wife. |
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. |
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. |
Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.) |
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. |
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. |
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up. |
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. |
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. |
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. |
The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. |
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. |
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. |
The man who has no imagination has no wings. |
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. |