Muhammad Ali Quotes

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

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

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

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.





I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

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

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.



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

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.



I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

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.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.


It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

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

What keeps me going is goals.

I am the astronaut of boxing. I'm in a world of my own.