Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
Muhammad Ali was a professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. He is regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century.
Professional Boxer | American
Born: 1942-01-17 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Died: June 3, 2016 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
Muhammad Ali
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.
Muhammad Ali
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.
Muhammad Ali
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
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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
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
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
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
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali
We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.
Muhammad Ali
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
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I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Muhammad Ali
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
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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