A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

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

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

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
- Muhammad Ali Quote

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

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.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

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.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

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

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

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

My toughest fight was with my first wife.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

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.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
- Muhammad Ali Quote

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

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.
- Muhammad Ali Quote