Top 350 Muhammad Ali Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.”

— Muhammad Ali

152. “I’m pretty as a girl.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

155. “I shook up the world.”

— Muhammad Ali

156. “I’ve never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

158. “I don’t look like no kiwi bird.”

— Muhammad Ali

159. “Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.”

— Muhammad Ali

160. “Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.”

— Muhammad Ali

161. “If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.”

— Muhammad Ali

162. “I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.”

— Muhammad Ali

163. “The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.”

— Muhammad Ali

164. “You could be the world’s best garbage man, the world’s best model; it don’t matter what you do if you’re the best.”

— Muhammad Ali

165. “There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.”

— Muhammad Ali

166. “The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.”

— Muhammad Ali

167. “The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.”

— Muhammad Ali

168. “My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.”

— Muhammad Ali

169. “Shut up, I know what I’m doing!”

— Muhammad Ali

170. “I outwit them, and then I outhit them.”

— Muhammad Ali

171. “The one without dreams is the one without wings.”

— Muhammad Ali

172. “Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.”

— Muhammad Ali

173. “He’s too ugly to be the champ!”

— Muhammad Ali

174. “The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!”

— Muhammad Ali

175. “There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.”

— Muhammad Ali

176. “I’ve never really resented hard work because I’ve always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o’clock. I never change my pattern.”

— Muhammad Ali

177. “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

178. “True giving happens when we give from our heart.”

— Muhammad Ali

179. “A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who’s driving? The police.”

— Muhammad Ali

180. “If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don’t ask how. Hitch him up.”

— Muhammad Ali

181. “The world’s champ should be pretty like me!”

— Muhammad Ali

182. “The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.”

— Muhammad Ali

183. “Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.”

— Muhammad Ali

184. “I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.”

— Muhammad Ali

185. “God works through people. It’s not me.”

— Muhammad Ali

186. “Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

187. “There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.”

— Muhammad Ali

188. “I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.”

— Muhammad Ali

189. “I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.”

— Muhammad Ali

190. “I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

191. “When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.”

— Muhammad Ali

192. “Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other’s gold.”

— Muhammad Ali

193. “Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.”

— Muhammad Ali

194. “Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.”

— Muhammad Ali

195. “What I’ve found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.”

— Muhammad Ali

196. “I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I’d dodge every one. That’s how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.”

— Muhammad Ali

197. “I’m the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.”

— Muhammad Ali

198. “Wouldn’t it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?”

— Muhammad Ali

199. “Stay away from the ropes.”

— Muhammad Ali

200. “I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.”

— Muhammad Ali