If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it.… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons.… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship.… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome, but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home. A lot of people said that… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share
I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts.… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share
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… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share
Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the Honorable Elijah… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share
I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share
Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share
We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share
If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share
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 Copy Share
