Top 350 Muhammad Ali Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I’m the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.”

— Muhammad Ali

202. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

205. “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

206. “I’m gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain’t going to die easy.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

208. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

213. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

216. “I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

218. “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

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219. “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

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220. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

222. “That computer was made in Alabama.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

224. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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228. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

230. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

236. “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

237. “I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.”

— Muhammad Ali

238. “No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn’t mean it to be that way.”

— Muhammad Ali

239. “When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.”

— Muhammad Ali

240. “The show was bad, but I was great.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

242. “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

243. “You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.”

— Muhammad Ali

244. “I’m The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.”

— Muhammad Ali

245. “Ain’t no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

246. “Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

249. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali