Top 350 Muhammad Ali Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Time Quotes

2. “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

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

3. “Impossible is nothing.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes

4. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Empowering Quotes

5. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Procrastination Quotes

6. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Interesting Quotes

7. “I am the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes, Personality Quotes, Winning Quotes

8. “What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Positive Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

9. “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 the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes

10. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes, Athlete Quotes

11. “The man with no imagination has no wings.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Good Morning Motivational Quotes, Imagination Quotes

12. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Action Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Winning Quotes, Performance Quotes

13. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Hard Work Quotes, Willpower Quotes

14. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Action Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

15. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Success Quotes, Courage Quotes, Action Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

16. “I’m going to show you how great I am!”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Success Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes

17. “Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Obstacles Quotes

18. “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.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Powerful Motivational Quotes, Impact Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

19. “I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and thrown thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Funny Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes

20. “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.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Emotional Quotes

21. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Real Quotes

22. “The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Service Quotes

23. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Confidence Quotes, Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Athlete Quotes

24. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Believe in Yourself Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Athlete Quotes

25. “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

Featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Performance Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Competition Quotes

26. “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

Featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Different Quotes, Justice Quotes

27. “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Confidence Quotes, Impact Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

28. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Experience Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Encouraging Quotes

29. “You’re not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you’ll find at the end will make it all worth it.”

— Muhammad Ali

30. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Real Quotes

31. “True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Values Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

32. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Perspective Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Greatness Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

33. “God will not place a burden on a man’s shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Blessed Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men, Struggle Quotes

34. “We can’t be brave without fear.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes

35. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Athlete Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Loss Quotes

36. “I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet.”

— Muhammad Ali

37. “If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Athlete Quotes, Personality Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

38. “The only limitations one has are the ones one places on oneself.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Positivity Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Personality Quotes, Quotes About Believing

39. “I’m a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won’t hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”

— Muhammad Ali

40. “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Firsts Quotes

41. “In the big leagues, everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Whoever is more mentally strong wins.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Strong Quotes

42. “It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Sports Quotes

43. “Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.”

— Muhammad Ali

44. “To the people that have said I’m too small, I’m not fast enough, I don’t have what it takes, I’m not strong enough. THANK YOU.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Strong Quotes

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

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Legacy Quotes

46. “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

Featured in: Humble Quotes

47. “Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Blessed Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Virtue Quotes, Humble Quotes

48. “It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Confidence Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes, Fighting Quotes

49. “Who’s gonna dare to be great?”

— Muhammad Ali

Featured in: Athlete Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Boxing Quotes

50. “The sun is always shining someplace.”

— Muhammad Ali