“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.”
“I have never heard anything that affected me like those words: ‘Heavyweight Champion of the World.”
“Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.”
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
“I shook up the world. Me! Wheel”
“I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.”
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.”
“I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.”
“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.”
“Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!”
“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
“The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.”
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.”
“When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me, is me.”
“There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”
“Champions aren’t made in gyms.”
“It takes pride and tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego the power to defeat an opponent in the ring.”
“Now you see me, now you don’t.”
“I don’t get hit. I’m the fastest thing on two feet man!” Muhammad Ali
