Muhammad Ali Quotes

"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."

"When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble."

"We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last."

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

"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."

"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."

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

"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."

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."

"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."

"I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them."

"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."

"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."

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

"I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."

"Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up."

"Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."

"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."