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
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
It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set… — 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
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
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
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
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me.… — 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
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
That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
