Muhammad Ali Quotes

• 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.

  Muhammad Ali

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

  Muhammad Ali

• The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

  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

  Topics in Religion

• No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

  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

  Topics in Life

• It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

  Muhammad Ali

• It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

• It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

  Muhammad Ali

• I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

  Muhammad Ali

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• I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

• I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

  Muhammad Ali

  Topics in Love

• 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

  Topics in Life

• I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

  Muhammad Ali

• I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.

  Muhammad Ali

  Tags in Washington

• I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Topics in Religion

• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Topics in Life

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

  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

  Topics in Friendship

• Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Topics in Life

Muhammad Ali (63)

Birth:	17th January, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Boxer

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