Top 350 Muhammad Ali Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

303. “I have the world heavyweight title not because it was ‘given’ to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.”

— Muhammad Ali

304. “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

305. “Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.”

— Muhammad Ali

306. “This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

308. “If you love God, tear out your heart’s love of the world.”

— Muhammad Ali

309. “The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

311. “I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.”

— Muhammad Ali

312. “Mr. president, I’ve been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.”

— Muhammad Ali

313. “I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.”

— Muhammad Ali

314. “Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn’t make me nervous. Standing up to the government – that made me nervous.”

— Muhammad Ali

315. “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

316. “Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I’m still pretty.”

— Muhammad Ali

317. “Don’t ever squeeze a fighter’s hand, man. You’re doing good just to lay your eyes on me.”

— Muhammad Ali

318. “I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I’m protected.”

— Muhammad Ali

319. “Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I’m just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I’m still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I’m gonna whup him. That was a good bike.”

— Muhammad Ali

320. “When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.”

— Muhammad Ali

321. “The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.”

— Muhammad Ali

322. “Being Ali’s doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.”

— Muhammad Ali

323. “Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”

— Muhammad Ali

324. “It’s possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.”

— Muhammad Ali

325. “Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right.”

— Muhammad Ali

326. “I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There’s nobody in the world like me. I’m getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don’t have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.”

— Muhammad Ali

327. “Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices.”

— Muhammad Ali

328. “Boxing’s a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I’m presentable.”

— Muhammad Ali

329. “I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.”

— Muhammad Ali

330. “War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.”

— Muhammad Ali

331. “Home is the place you can go when you’re whipped.”

— Muhammad Ali

332. “I’m the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.”

— Muhammad Ali

333. “The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

335. “Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.”

— Muhammad Ali

336. “I’ve got it! I’ve got it! It’ll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I’ll show up again.”

— Muhammad Ali

337. “I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history.”

— Muhammad Ali

338. “All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I’ve proved my point. Now I’m going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I’m through talking.”

— Muhammad Ali

339. “I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.”

— Muhammad Ali

340. “Stumbling is the fruit of haste.”

— Muhammad Ali

341. “Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life’s annihilation!”

— Muhammad Ali

342. “If America were in a just war I’d volunteer for the front line. I’d do the shuffling and win the war.”

— Muhammad Ali

343. “There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn’t just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.”

— Muhammad Ali

344. “So I didn’t pass. It was the army’s decision that they didn’t want me to go into the service. They’re the boss. I don’t want to say no whole lot about it.”

— Muhammad Ali

345. “A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.”

— Muhammad Ali

346. “You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can’t name a nation where they don’t know me.”

— Muhammad Ali

347. “If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.”

— Muhammad Ali

348. “I’d like to live to a hundred.”

— Muhammad Ali

349. “My trainer don’t tell me nothing between rounds. I don’t allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It’s too late for advice.”

— Muhammad Ali

350. “But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn’t know the answers. I don’t even know how to start after finding the answers. That’s all.”

— Muhammad Ali