Top 350 Muhammad Ali Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

257. “That computer was made in Alabama.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

260. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

267. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

269. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

272. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

278. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

282. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

289. “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

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

— Muhammad Ali

291. “You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I’m the Heavyweight Champion! Can’t nobody stop me.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

293. “Fighting by itself doesn’t interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.”

— Muhammad Ali

294. “Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! – young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.”

— Muhammad Ali

295. “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

296. “The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.”

— Muhammad Ali

297. “Superman don’t need no seat belt.”

— Muhammad Ali

298. “I wasn’t thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

300. “I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.”

— Muhammad Ali