Top 350 Muhammad Ali Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.”

— Muhammad Ali

202. “When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.”

— Muhammad Ali

203. “I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don’t mess with Muhammad Ali.”

— Muhammad Ali

204. “When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock.”

— Muhammad Ali

205. “I don’t know what truculent means, but if it’s good, it’s me.”

— Muhammad Ali

206. “Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.”

— Muhammad Ali

207. “When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.”

— Muhammad Ali

208. “Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you’d want to know.”

— Muhammad Ali

209. “If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman’s behind!”

— Muhammad Ali

210. “Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.”

— Muhammad Ali

211. “What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems.”

— Muhammad Ali

212. “Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.”

— Muhammad Ali

213. “Some gems for the greatest of them all.”

— Muhammad Ali

214. “The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else.”

— Muhammad Ali

215. “I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.”

— Muhammad Ali

216. “I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.”

— Muhammad Ali

217. “Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night.”

— Muhammad Ali

218. “Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.”

— Muhammad Ali

219. “Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.”

— Muhammad Ali

220. “I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.”

— Muhammad Ali

221. “Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?”

— Muhammad Ali

222. “Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.”

— Muhammad Ali

223. “You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.”

— Muhammad Ali

224. “People don’t realise what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy – nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley – I was the Elvis of boxing.”

— Muhammad Ali

225. “I can’t see what God’s plan is. I just know I’ve got to live with it.”

— Muhammad Ali

226. “If you are not the best, then pretend you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

227. “I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”

— Muhammad Ali

228. “You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I’m going after your job.”

— Muhammad Ali

229. “I’m going to, not I’m gonna. Talk intelligent.”

— Muhammad Ali

230. “I called my training camp Fighter’s Heaven.”

— Muhammad Ali

231. “We are all God’s people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn’t see colors.”

— Muhammad Ali

232. “I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson’s stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.”

— Muhammad Ali

233. “I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.”

— Muhammad Ali

234. “What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.”

— Muhammad Ali

235. “People will know you’re serious when you produce.”

— Muhammad Ali

236. “Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.”

— Muhammad Ali

237. “I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.”

— Muhammad Ali

238. “Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.”

— Muhammad Ali

239. “A man who views the world the same...”

— Muhammad Ali

240. “You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I’m gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.”

— Muhammad Ali

241. “Stumbling is the fruit of haste.”

— Muhammad Ali

242. “America don’t have no future! America’s going to be destroyed! Allah’s going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes- there’s gonna be all kinds of trouble. America’s going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it’s done to black people.”

— Muhammad Ali

243. “Sonny Liston is great. But he’ll fall in eight.”

— Muhammad Ali

244. “When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn’t just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.”

— Muhammad Ali

245. “I’m so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.”

— Muhammad Ali

246. “My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.”

— Muhammad Ali

247. “Since I won’t let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I’m full of hate. But they don’t really hurt me none, ’cause I’m doing good and having fun.”

— Muhammad Ali

248. “I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.”

— Muhammad Ali

249. “I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.”

— Muhammad Ali

250. “My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that’s not easy.”

— Muhammad Ali