Muhammad Ali Great Quotations

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong,

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.

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

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.

Who's gonna dare to be great?

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw 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.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

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.

What keeps me going is goals.

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.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Superman don't need no seat belt.

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

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.