Top 350 Muhammad Ali Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Muhammad Ali

102. “Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times.”

— Muhammad Ali

103. “How could they say that my religion, Islam was a ‘race hate’ religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?”

— Muhammad Ali

104. “I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it’s the managers that make the money and last the longest.”

— Muhammad Ali

105. “Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!”

— Muhammad Ali

106. “The word ‘Islam’ means ‘peace.’ The word ‘Muslim’ means ‘one who surrenders to God.’ But the press makes us seem like haters.”

— Muhammad Ali

107. “What keeps me going is goals.”

— Muhammad Ali

108. “Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer.”

— Muhammad Ali

109. “Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn’t mean anything, because I didn’t have the right color skin.”

— Muhammad Ali

110. “It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

— Muhammad Ali

111. “When you’re right, nobody remembers. When you’re wrong, nobody forgets.”

— Muhammad Ali

112. “I’m so mean I make medicine sick!”

— Muhammad Ali

113. “That all you got, George?”

— Muhammad Ali

114. “Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can’t protect your women, you can’t protect your nation.”

— Muhammad Ali

115. “Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.”

— Muhammad Ali

116. “It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.”

— Muhammad Ali

117. “I’m the greatest, I’m a bad man, and I’m pretty!”

— Muhammad Ali

118. “I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.”

— Muhammad Ali

119. “Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight.”

— Muhammad Ali

120. “Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions.”

— Muhammad Ali

121. “I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.”

— Muhammad Ali

122. “I was saying “I’m the greatest” long before I believed it.”

— Muhammad Ali

123. “I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.”

— Muhammad Ali

124. “Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn’t belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.”

— Muhammad Ali

125. “I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.”

— Muhammad Ali

126. “Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.”

— Muhammad Ali

127. “What counts in the ring is what you can do after you’re exhausted. The same is true of life.”

— Muhammad Ali

128. “When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.”

— Muhammad Ali

129. “I don’t count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.”

— Muhammad Ali

130. “My toughest opponent has always been me.”

— Muhammad Ali

131. “It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”

— Muhammad Ali

132. “Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.”

— Muhammad Ali

133. “Now you see me, now you don’t. George thinks he will, but I know he won’t!”

— Muhammad Ali

134. “Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.”

— Muhammad Ali

135. “Money and riches don’t mean nothing to me. I don’t care nothing about being no rich individual. I’m not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it’s gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.”

— Muhammad Ali

136. “Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.”

— Muhammad Ali

137. “I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.”

— Muhammad Ali

138. “God gave me this illness to remind me that I’m not Number One; He is.”

— Muhammad Ali

139. “My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.”

— Muhammad Ali

140. “There comes a time in every person’s life when he has to choose the course his life will take.”

— Muhammad Ali

141. “If you look at the world the same way when you’re 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.”

— Muhammad Ali

142. “No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.”

— Muhammad Ali

143. “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

144. “All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.”

— Muhammad Ali

145. “I’m pretty as a girl.”

— Muhammad Ali

146. “Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.”

— Muhammad Ali

147. “Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.”

— Muhammad Ali

148. “Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.”

— Muhammad Ali

149. “I shook up the world.”

— Muhammad Ali

150. “That’s okay, I’m still the Greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali