Top 350 Muhammad Ali Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “Stumbling is the fruit of haste.”

— Muhammad Ali

253. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

255. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

258. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

260. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

262. “Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.”

— Muhammad Ali

263. “I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

264. “Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag.”

— Muhammad Ali

265. “They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.”

— Muhammad Ali

266. “Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.”

— Muhammad Ali

267. “I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.”

— Muhammad Ali

268. “I want to be the first black man on the moon.”

— Muhammad Ali

269. “No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.”

— Muhammad Ali

270. “There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That’s a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.”

— Muhammad Ali

271. “I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn’t have said. Called him names I shouldn’t have called him. I apologise for that. I’m sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.”

— Muhammad Ali

272. “Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I’m not fighting one man. I’m fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of ’em, here is one man they couldn’t defeat, couldn’t conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people.”

— Muhammad Ali

273. “When you come to the fight Don’t block the halls and don’t block the door, for y’all may go home after round four.”

— Muhammad Ali

274. “I’m not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don’t even know where I get them.”

— Muhammad Ali

275. “I’m so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.”

— Muhammad Ali

276. “If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.”

— Muhammad Ali

277. “Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women – but all that stuff stopped.”

— Muhammad Ali

278. “I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I’d rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.”

— Muhammad Ali

279. “We are stone enemies when the bell rings.”

— Muhammad Ali

280. “The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.”

— Muhammad Ali

281. “If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins.”

— Muhammad Ali

282. “I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!”

— Muhammad Ali

283. “Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.”

— Muhammad Ali

284. “If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they’re crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

285. “Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.”

— Muhammad Ali

286. “Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn’t find a mouthpiece big enough.”

— Muhammad Ali

287. “They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.”

— Muhammad Ali

288. “My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time.”

— Muhammad Ali

289. “I’ll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.”

— Muhammad Ali

290. “The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.”

— Muhammad Ali

291. “The one thing I don’t understand is war.”

— Muhammad Ali

292. “There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”

— Muhammad Ali

293. “All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.”

— Muhammad Ali

294. “I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”

— Muhammad Ali

295. “I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.”

— Muhammad Ali

296. “During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.”

— Muhammad Ali

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297. “Enjoy your children, even when they don’t act the way you want them to.”

— Muhammad Ali

298. “The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn’t been born yet.”

— Muhammad Ali

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299. “In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away.”

— Muhammad Ali

300. “Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.”

— Muhammad Ali