1. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

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2. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””

— Muhammad Ali

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3. “Impossible is nothing.”

— Muhammad Ali

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4. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

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5. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”

— Muhammad Ali

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6. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

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7. “I am the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

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8. “What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.”

— Muhammad Ali

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9. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

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10. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

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11. “The man with no imagination has no wings.”

— Muhammad Ali

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12. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

— Muhammad Ali

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13. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.”

— Muhammad Ali

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14. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.”

— Muhammad Ali

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15. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

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16. “I’m going to show you how great I am!”

— Muhammad Ali

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17. “Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.”

— Muhammad Ali

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18. “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

— Muhammad Ali

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19. “I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and thrown thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

— Muhammad Ali

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20. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

— Muhammad Ali

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21. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

— Muhammad Ali

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22. “The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”

— Muhammad Ali

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23. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”

— Muhammad Ali

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24. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

— Muhammad Ali

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25. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

— Muhammad Ali

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26. “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

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27. “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”

— Muhammad Ali

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28. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

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29. “You’re not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you’ll find at the end will make it all worth it.”

— Muhammad Ali

30. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.”

— Muhammad Ali

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31. “True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.”

— Muhammad Ali

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32. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

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33. “We can’t be brave without fear.”

— Muhammad Ali

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34. “God will not place a burden on a man’s shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.”

— Muhammad Ali

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35. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

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36. “I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet.”

— Muhammad Ali

37. “If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”

— Muhammad Ali

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38. “The only limitations one has are the ones one places on oneself.”

— Muhammad Ali

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39. “I’m a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won’t hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”

— Muhammad Ali

40. “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”

— Muhammad Ali

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41. “In the big leagues, everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Whoever is more mentally strong wins.”

— Muhammad Ali

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42. “It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”

— Muhammad Ali

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43. “Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.”

— Muhammad Ali

44. “To the people that have said I’m too small, I’m not fast enough, I don’t have what it takes, I’m not strong enough. THANK YOU.”

— Muhammad Ali

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45. “We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.”

— Muhammad Ali

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46. “It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

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47. “At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.”

— Muhammad Ali

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48. “Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”

— Muhammad Ali

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49. “Who’s gonna dare to be great?”

— Muhammad Ali

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50. “The sun is always shining someplace.”

— Muhammad Ali