Famous Quotes

Quotes by Muhammad Ali

• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
• Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
• 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.
• Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
• Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
• Failure is a word unknown to me.
• Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
• Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
• I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
• I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
• I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
• 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.
• 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.
• I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
• Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
• It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
• 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.
• My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
• My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
• No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
• No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
• Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
• 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.
• Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
• Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
• Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
• That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
• The man who has no imagination has no wings.
• The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
• There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
• Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
• We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.