Background Image

...

The Real Enemy Of My People Is Here. I Will Not Disgrace My Religion, My People Or Myself By Becoming A Tool To Enslave Those Who Are Fighting For Their Own Justice, Freedom And Equality.… If I Thought The War Was Going To Bring Freedom And Equality To 22 Million Of My People They Wouldn’t Have To Draft Me, I’d Join Tomorrow. I Have Nothing To Lose By Standing Up For My Beliefs. So I’ll Go To Jail, So What? We’ve Been In Jail For 400 Years.

-Muhammad Ali

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

The Real Enemy Of

Muhammad Ali

...

The Real Enemy Of My People Is Here. I Will Not Disgrace My Religion, My People Or Myself By Becoming A Tool To Enslave Those Who Are Fighting For Their Own Justice, Freedom And Equality.… If I Thought The War Was Going To Bring Freedom And Equality To 22 Million Of My People They Wouldn’t Have To Draft Me, I’d Join Tomorrow. I Have Nothing To Lose By Standing Up For My Beliefs. So I’ll Go To Jail, So What? We’ve Been In Jail For 400 Years.

Views: 38272

Topic

More From Muhammad Ali

Frazier's Got Two Chances. Slim, And None. And Slim Just Left Town

The Bull Is Stronger, But The Matador Is Smarter.

My Definition Of Evil Is Unfriendliness.

It Will Be A Killer, And A Chiller, And A Thriller, When I Get The Gorilla In Manila.

I'm Not Into Fashion At All. I Always Wear The Same Thing: Dark Suits. I Don't Even Know Where I Get Them.

It's Ain't Sad That I Want My Child To Look Like Me? Every Intelligent Person Wants Their Child To Look Like Him.

Age Is Whatever You Think It Is. You Are As Old As You Think You Are.

Impossible Is Not A Fact. It's An Opinion. Impossible Is Not A Declaration. It's A Dare. Impossible Is Potential. Impossible Is Temporary. Impossible Is Nothing

Law Of Attraction

Impossible Things

The Prophet Introduced A System Of Prayer In That It Was Interwoven Into Man's Daily Work: A Prayer In The Morning When He Arose From His Bed; A Prayer At Lunch Time, As An Indication That If His Body Needed A Diet, So Did His Spirit; A Prayer In The Afternoon When He Retired From His Daily Work; A Prayer At Sunset And A Prayer When Going To Bed.

My Trainer Don't Tell Me Nothing Between Rounds. I Don't Allow Him To. I Fight The Fight. All I Want To Know Is Did I Win The Round. It's Too Late For Advice.

There's Nothing Wrong With Getting Knocked Down, As Long As You Get Right Back Up.

Sometimes Howard [cosell] Makes Me Wish I Was A Dog And He Was A Fireplug.

I Just Give Lip Service To Being The Greatest. He Was The Greatest.

If You Love God, Tear Out Your Heart's Love Of The World.

Will Be A Divine Fight, A Holy War...armageddon On A Miniature Scale.

The Man Who Has No Imagination Has No Wings.

I Just Won The Gold Medal And I Couldn't Eat Downtown. I Said, 'something's Wrong.' And From Then On, I've Been A Muslim.

Get Up Sucker And Fight. Get Up And Fight

If I Kept My Mouth Shut, Because I Can Make Millions, That Isn't Doing Nothing.

When You Saw Me In The Boxing Ring Fighting, It Wasn't Just So I Could Beat My Opponent. My Fighting Had A Purpose. I Had To Be Successful In Order To Get People To Listen To The Things I Had To Say.

Silence Is Golden When You Can't Think Of A Good Answer.

Champions Have To Have The Skill And The Will. But The Will Must Be Stronger Than The Skill.

There Are Two Things That Are Hard To Hit And See. That's A Spooky Ghost And Muhammad Ali.

I Don't Smoke But I Keep A Match Box In My Pocket, When My Heart Slips Towards Sin, I Burn The Matchstick And Heat My Palm With It, Then Say To Myself, "ali You Can't Even Bear This Heat, How Would You Bear The Unbearable Heat Of Hellfire?"

Mr. President, I've Been A Citizen Of The United States Of America For Thirty Three Years And Was Never Invited To The White House. It Sure Gives Me Pleasure To Be Invited To The Black House.

My Soul Has Grown Over The Years, And Some Of My Views Have Changed. As Long As I Am Alive, I Will Continue To Try To Understand More Because The Work Of The Heart Is Never Done.

I've Never Let Anyone Talk Me Into Not Believing In Myself

Whoever Knocks Persistently, Ends By Entering.

Santa Claus Was White And Everything Bad Was Black. The Little Ugly Duckling Was The Black Duck, And The Black Cat Was The Bad Luck. And If I Threaten You, I'm Going To Blackmail You.i Said, 'momma, Why Don't They Call It 'whitemail'? They Lie Too.'

Get Up And Say Elijah Muhammad Is Wrong When He Says White Are The Devil? They Have To Prove They Are Not The Devil.

Elijah Muhammad

I Don't Count My Situps. I Only Start Counting Once It Starts Hurting.

If They Can Make Penicillin Out Of Mouldy Bread, They Can Sure Make Something Out Of You.

The Word Had Spread And People Were Piling Around Us. But Then Very Suddenly, Sonny Liston Froze Me With That Look Of His. He Said Real Quiet, 'let's Go On Over Here.' And He Led The Way To A Table And The People Hung Back. I Ain't Going To Lie. This Was The Only Time Since I Have Known Sonny Liston That He Really Scared Me.

When A Chivalrous Man Makes An Oath, He Is Faithful To It, And When He Attains Power, He Spares His Enemy.

I Live. I Travel. I Eat. I Pray. These Are The Things I Do. I'd Rather Be In My Condition Than Be A Man With Four Children In A Four-bedroom House, Working Hard Every Day To Pay For His House, Taking His Children To School.

Women Are The Field That Produces Our Nation. And If You Can't Protect Your Women, You Can't Protect Your Nation.

A Lot Of Wars Are Fought Between Black And Whites Daily In America. But If It's Something I Want To Be With, The People Who Started It Were Black, I Wouldn't Not Get In It.

Black And White

Wouldn't It Be A Beautiful World If Just 10 Percent Of The People Who Believe In The Power Of Love Would Compete With One Another To See Who Could Do The Most Good For The Most People?

What’s My Greatest Weakness? Sad Stories, People With Problems

The World’s Champ Should Be Pretty Like Me!

I Would Like To Say That Whites Jumped Right Behind Malcolm X. They’re Makin’ A Book About Him, It’s Required Readin’ In All Colleges Now, And They’re Makin’ A Movie About Him, And Projectin’ Him As The Leader And If You Read His Book And See The Movie That’s Comin’ Out, It’ll Make You Hate Elijah Mohammed And The Muslims. Mainly, This Is Done To Turn The Black People Against The Real Leader And I’d Like To Say That This Is The Way White People Rule.

Holmes Is So Ugly, His Grandmother Said When He Started To Cry The Tears Would Stop And Roll Down The Back Of His Head.

Stay Away From The Ropes

I Said, 'oh, I Know. If The White Folks Is In Heaven Too, Then The Black Angels Were In The Kitchen, Preparing The Milk And Honey.'

Wars Of Nations Are Fought To Change Maps. But Wars Of Poverty Are Fought To Map Change.

A Long Time Ago, I Took A Walk Down A Street In Harlem In New York City. I Came Upon A Man Who Asked Me For A Dollar. He Had Asked A Few Other People Before Me, But They Only Passed Him By Without Glancing His Way. I Stopped And Handed The Man Some Money. As I Began To Turn Away, He Reached Out And Shook My Hand. He Looked Me In The Eyes And Said, "i Will Bless You." Now, I'm Not Saying That Was God Himself. But How Do We Know That It Wasn't Someone Working For Him, Walking Around In Disguise, Just To See What We Would Do?

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.

I Sought The Advice And Cooperation From All Those Around Me- But Not Permission.

I Still Looked The Same - I Had A Swollen Jaw.

Elijah Muhammad Teaches Us The Truth Of God Beautified The Planet By Separating Everybody In Different Countries For Themselves: Chinese In China, English In England, Puerto Ricans In Puerto Rico, Ethiopians In Ethiopia, Arabians In Arabia, Egyptians In Egypt, And Americans Took That Country And Stole It Away So There's Always Going To Be Trouble And Chaos.

Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee.

They Can Boo Me, Yell At Me, And Throw Peanuts At Me, As Long As They Pay To Get In.

My Toughest Opponent Has Always Been Me.

I Got It Made The Rest Of My Life, Financially And In Every Other Way. There's Nobody In The World Like Me. I'm Getting Out Just In Time. If I Was Twenty Seven, I Could Still Kick Ass. I Don't Have To Beat Holmes. Why? I Raised Him, He Worked Three Years As A Sparring Partner For Me.

Sparring Partner

I Want Fifteen Referees At This Fight…because There Ain’t No One Man Who Can Keep Up With The Pace I’m Gonna Set Except Me

I'll Leave You With One That I Have Hanging On My Office Wall, Compliments Of Nike: Impossible Is Nothing.

We Followed The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, Who Is The Boss. And We Don't Waste A Lot Of Time Arguin' About A Dead Black Man, Malcolm X, When The Whites Are Our Common Enemies.

Love Is The Net Where Hearts Are Caught Like Fish.

My Face Is So Pretty, You Don’t See A Scar, Which Proves I’m The King Of The Ring By Far.

If We Were Second Class Citizens We'd Be Driving Old Cadillacs And Living Good. If We Were First Class We'd Be Driving A Rolls Royce.

The Greatest Victory In Life Is To Rise Above The Material Things That We Once Valued Most

Greatest Victory

The World Badly Needs More Peaceful And Loving Men Like Sri Chinmoy. I Am A Muslim And He Is Serving All People Of Peace. Sri Chinmoy Is Doing So Much For The World, For People Of All Faiths, Because Of His Own Peace And Faith.

I Didn't Even Need America, I Was So Popular Outside The Country, Until The Prosecutin' Attorney Came From Washington, And Said, Judge, We Cannot Let This Man Go To Japan And Fight, Because They Are Anti-american.now, If I Want To Leave The Country, I Know How To Leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I Really Want To Leave. That's Not The Intention. The Intention Is To Stop Me From Makin' A Livin'. To Punish Me.

There's Nothing Stressful About Turning 50 Except People Reminding You About It.

Money And Riches Don't Mean Nothing To Me. I Don't Care Nothing About Being No Rich Individual. I'm Not Living For Glory Or For Fame; All This Is Doomed For Destruction. You Got It Today, Tomorrow It's Gone. I Got Bigger Things On My Mind Than That. I Got Islam On My Mind.

This Boldness In Telling The Truth Overshadows Sport Greatly. You Couldn't Get Joe Frazier Or No Boxer On This Show And Get Interest In A Subject Like This. He Couldn't Talk About It.

Telling The Truth

The Most Powerful Military Country In The World, America - Which Makes All The Guns, All The Machinery, All The Bullets - Taught Us How To Shoot The Guns.

We Are Stone Enemies When The Bell Rings

The Same People That Are With Me For Not Going To Vietnam Because I Saved Them And Their Children.the Same People Will Give Me Hell If I Turn To Them And Say, 'let's Free My People Now'.they're With Me On One Part Of My Beliefs About The War, That's All. Not For My Freedom.

All Through My Life, I Have Been Tested. My Will Has Been Tested, My Courage Has Been Tested, My Strength Has Been Tested. Now My Patience And Endurance Are Being Tested.

I Didn't Deny Nothing I Believe. I'm Still The Same Everything.

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.

But When I Looked At A Lot Of The Questions They Had On Them Army Tests, I Just Didn't Know The Answers. I Don't Even Know How To Start After Finding The Answers. That's All.

I'm Not Trying To Get Power Over White. I'm Involved In A Freedom Struggle. Not A Power Struggle.

Impossible Is Nothing.

You Can Be Free. You Can Be Black. Look At Me! I'm The Heavyweight Champion! Can't Nobody Stop Me.

Over The Years My Religion Has Changed And My Spirituality Has Evolved. Religion And Spirituality Are Very Different, But People Often Confuse The Two. Some Things Cannot Be Taught, But They Can Be Awakened In The Heart. Spirituality Is Recognizing The Divine Light That Is Within Us All. It Doesn't Belong To Any Particular Religion; It Belongs To Everyone.

You May Talk About Sweden, You May Talk About Rome, But Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's Home. A Lot Of People Said That Floyd Couldn't Fight, But You Should Have Seen Him On The Comeback Night.

Black People In America Will Never Be Free So Long As They're On The White Man's Land. We Can't Be Free Until We Get Our Own Land And Our Own Country In North America. When We Separate From America And Take Maybe Ten States, Then We'll Be Free.

You Can Do What You Want. But It's Nature To Be With Your Own. I Want To Be With My Own.

I Am An Ordinary Man Who Worked Hard To Develop The Talent I Was Given.

Sometimes I Feel A Lot Of Things But I Keep It In. I'm Sure We All Have This Built-in Radar Of What We Predict And When It Happens, We Feel 'i Knew It'.

The Show Was Bad, But I Was Great

If You Were Surprised When Nixon Resigned, Just Watch What Happens When I Whup Foreman's Behind!

Nobody Has To Tell Me That This Is A Serious Business. I'm Not Fighting One Man. I'm Fighting A Lot Of Men, Showing A Lot Of 'em, Here Is One Man They Couldn't Defeat, Couldn't Conquer. My Mission Is To Bring Freedom To 30m Black People

I Used To Ask My Brother Rudy To Throw Rocks At Me. I'd Dodge Every One. That's How I Learned How To Bob And Weave: Ducking Rocks.

I Hated The Sight On Tv Of Big, Clumsy, Lumbering Heavyweights Plodding, Stalking Each Other Like Two Frankenstein Monsters, Clinging, Slugging Toe To Toe. I Knew I Could Do It Better ... Circle, Dance, Shuffle, Hit And Move ... Make An Art Out Of It.

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.

He Who Is Not Courageous Enough To Take Risks Will Accomplish Nothing In Life.

My Health Is In The Hands Of Allah, Who Has Ways Of Testing Us. Whatever Happens, Happens. I A'int The Greatest - It's Allah. I Gave Myself A Job. I Work For God.

You Got Black People In An All-white Country And They Don't Know Nothing About Themselves.

This Relationship Will Help Guarantee That, For Generations To Come, People Of All Nations Will Understand My Beliefs And My Purpose

Guarantees That

Things Are Getting Much Better, But I Always Wondered When I Went To Church On Sundays. I've Always Been One To... I'm Not Just A Boxer.

Church On Sunday

Sonny Liston Is Great. But He'll Fall In Eight.

When One Man Of Popularity Can Let The World Know The Problem, He Might Lose A Few Dollars Himself. He Might Lose His Life. But He's Helping Millions.

It's Possible For The Heavyweight Champion Of The World To Be With One Woman.

I'm Too Fast. I'm Too Smart. I'm Too Pretty.

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.

It's Lack Of Faith That Makes People Afraid Of Meeting Challenges, And I Believed In Myself.

Number One Comes Freedom First For My People And Equality. And This Is What I Plan To Do After I'm Through Fighting - Working With Nothing But The People, The Little People In The Alleys: The Downtrodden People, Going Out And Helping Them With My Image.

When I Was 9, I Saw A Wrestler On Television Named Gorgeous George. He Said, "i'm Beautiful. I'm So Pretty That If A Sucker Touches My Face, I'll Kill Him. If He Messes With My Hair, I'll Pummel Him." I Said To Myself, "that's A Good Idea. I Am The Greatest, I'm Pretty." And Then I Took It A Little Further Than He Did.

Black People We've Been Taught That We Will Never Be Free, Until Some Will Have To Die, Some Will Have To Give Up Wealth, Their Loved Ones, And Their Health, So, What I'm Doin' Is For Myself And For Justice For Black People, Runnin' Will Kill It All, It'll Make Me A Coward.

You Know I Hate Fighting. If I Knew How To Make A Living Some Other Way, I Would.

It All Started To Come Together When I Realized That Boxing Was How I Was Going To Succeed In Life.

Whether It's Boxing, Basketball, Or Badminton, One Must Be Ready To Succeed Before Entering The Arena...long Before The Lights Come Up.

I Do Need Publicity But Not For What I Do For Good. I Need Publicity For My Book. I Need Publicity For My Fights. I Need Publicity For My Movie But Not For Helping People. Then It Is No Longer Sincere.

I Say Get An Education. Become An Electrician, A Mechanic, A Doctor, A Lawyer, Anything But A Fighter. In This Trade, It's The Managers That Make The Money And Last The Longest.

Floyd Paterson? Boy, He's The Complete Opposite To Me. He No Way Like Me. They Go Down In History For Just Being Athletes. I'm Getting More Praise And Credit For Doing What I'm Doing Now On This Show Than Coming Here And Beating Five Of Your English Champions.

Frank Sinatra Told Floyd Paterson How He Should Whoop Me. Frank Sinatra.

My Way Of Joking Is To Tell The Truth. That's The Funniest Joke In The World.

Islam Religion Has No Color Distinction, We Are Just Muslims.

Most People Don't Pray Until They're In Trouble. When People Need Help They Pray A Lot. But After They Get What They Want, They Slow Down. If A Man Takes Five Showers A Day, His Body Will Be Clean. Praying Five Times A Day Helps Me Clean My Mind.

I Got Nothing Against No Viet Cong. No Vietnamese Ever Called Me A >.

Every Time I Look In The Mirror, I See That Kid From Louisville, Kentucky, Staring Back At Me. His Name Was Cassius Clay.

It's The Repetition Of Affirmations That Leads To Belief. And Once That Belief Becomes A Deep Conviction, Things Begin To Happen.

I Have A Beautiful Daughter, Beautiful Wife.they Look Like Me, We All Happy And I Don't Have No Trouble. And I Ain't That Much In Love With No Woman To Go Through That Hell - Ain't No One Woman That Good.

If We Continue To Think And Live As If We Belong Only To Different Cultures And Different Religions, With Separate Missions And Goals, We Will Always Be In Self-defeating Competition With Each Other. Once We Realize We Are All Members Of Humanity, We Will Want To Compete In The Spirit Of Love.

Lakes, Rivers, Streams...all Are Water And All Travel To The Same Destination. So It Is With Religion.

Howard Cosell Was Gonna Be A Boxer When He Was A Kid Only They Couldn't Find A Mouthpiece Big Enough.

Champions Aren't Made In The Gyms. Champions Are Made From Something They Have Deep Inside Them-a Desire, A Dream, A Vision.

So I Didn't Pass. It Was The Army's Decision That They Didn't Want Me To Go Into The Service. They're The Boss. I Don't Want To Say No Whole Lot About It.

If You Are Not The Best, Then Pretend You Are

I Wasn't Thinking Of Being The Greatest. But I Knew I Had A Chance.

I Think We're All Brothers - That's The Truth. But The Press Gave Us The Name Black Muslims To Cut Us Off From The Others.

If Some Black Man Go Out And Start Something, A Riot Or Something Or, I'm Not Going To Jump In It And Get Killed Because He's Gone Out And Started Something I Don't Believe In What He's Fighting For Or His Approach.

If You Lose A Big Fight, It Will Worry You All Of Your Life. It Will Plague You - Until You Get Your Revenge.

I Figured That If I Said It Enough, I Would Convince The World That I Really Was The Greatest.

Accomplish Nothing

Lighting That Torch In Atlanta Didn't Make Me Nervous. Standing Up To The Government - That Made Me Nervous.

I Just Felt The Power And The Meanness Of The Man I Was Messing With.

My Wealth Is In My Knowledge Of Self, Love, And Spirituality.

Spirituality Is Recognizing The Divine Light That Is Within Us All. It Doesn't Belong To Any Particular Religion; It Belongs To Everyone

God Works Through People. It’s Not Me.

I Said A Lot Of Things In The Heat Of The Moment That I Shouldn't Have Said. Called Him Names I Shouldn't Have Called Him. I Apologise For That. I'm Sorry. It Was All Meant To Promote The Fight.

Friendship Is Definitely The Most Difficult Detail On The Globe To Elucidate. It Is Really Not Something You Understand At School. But If You Have Not Realized The Which Means Of Friendship, You Truly Have Not Realized Anything.

All I Want Now Is To Be A Nice, Clean Gentleman. I've Proved My Point. Now I'm Going To Set An Example For All The Nice Boys And Girls. I'm Through Talking

The Outgoing And Spontaneous Person That The World Knew While I Was Boxing Was A Persona That I Created To Sell Tickets And Promote My Career. In My Private Life, I Am Quiet And Reflective By Nature.

Believe Me, A Thousand Friends Suffice Thee Not; In A Single Enemy Thou Hast More Than Enough.

Everything The Black People Are Doing Comes From The Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They Are Black Now, They Don't Want To Be Called Negroes. This Come From The Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

Someone Stole My Bicycle And I Said I Was Going To Learn To Fight So That I Could Catch Him And Beat Him Up. But I Never Did Catch Him. But I Ended Up The Champ Of The Whole World.

Who's Gonna Dare To Be Great?

Dare To Be Great

Parkinson's Is My Toughest Fight. No, It Doesn't Hurt. It's Hard To Explain. I'm Being Tested To See If I'll Keep Praying, To See If I'll Keep My Faith. All Great People Are Tested By God.

I'm Definitely Gonna Be The People's Champion ... But I Just Ain't Gonna Be The Champ The Way You Want Me To Be The Champ. I'm Gonna Be The Champ The Way I Wanna Be.

Live Everyday As If It Were Your Last Because Someday You're Going To Be Right.

People Sold Everything - Their Cars, Their Land For Miles, To Come In And See Me Beat. I Went To The Bank Laughing Every Time.

I'm The King Of The World, I Am The Greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I Shook Up The World, I Am The Greatest, I'm King Of The World, I'm Pretty, I'm Pretty, I'm A Baaaad Man, You Heard Me I'm A Baaad Man, Archie Moore Fell In Four, Liston Wanted Me More, So Since He's So Great, I'm A Make Him Fall In Eight, I'm A Baaad Man, I'm King Of The World! I'm 22 Years Old And Ain't Gotta Mark On My Face, I'm Pretty, I Easily Survived Six Rounds With That Ugly Bear, Because I Am The Greatest.

Impossible Is Not A Declaration. It's A Dare.

I Tell You What I Really Fear. I Fear Aeroplanes. When The Flight's All Right And Smooth I'm Still Thinking, 'what If The Engine Blow Up?' 'what If A Fool's Got A Bomb On It?'

Fifteen Referees. I Want Fifteen Referees To Be At This Fight Because There Ain't No One Man Who Can Keep Up With The Pace I'm Gonna Set Except Me. There's Not A Man Alive Who Can Whup Me. I'm Too Fast. I'm Too Smart. I'm Too Pretty. I Should Be A Postage Stamp. That's The Only Way I'll Ever Get Licked.

Being Ali's Doctor Is Somewhat Like Being Gynacologist To The Queen Of England. One Does Not Have To Do Much To Receive Good Press.

Just Remember That You Don't Have To Be What They Want You To Be.

If You Want To Be Equal With Me, You Can Get Your Own Rolls-royce, Your Own House And Your Own Million Dollars.

I Did Not Disregard My Culture, If I Did, It Was The White American Culture, And I Accepted My True Culture, When I Accepted Mohammed Ali, Because This Is A Black Name, Islam Is The Black Man's Religion, And So I Would Like To Say, That I Would Like To Clarify That Point That I Reclaimed My Real Culture, And That's Being A Black Man And Wearing A Black Name With A Black Body, And Not A White Name, So I Would Never Say That I Didn't Disown My Culture.

No Woman On This Whole Earth Can Please Me And Cook For Me And Socialise And Talk To Me Like My American Black Woman.

Children Make You Want To Start Life Over.

That Man Was Beautiful. Timing, Speed, Reflexes, Rhythm, His Body, Everything Was Beautiful. And To Me, Still, I Would Say Pound For Pound... I'd Say I'm The Greatest Heavyweight Of All Time, But Pound For Pound, I Still Say Sugar Ray Robinson Was The Greatest Of All Time.

Only The Nose Knows Where The Nose Goes When The Door Close.

When A Man Says I Cannot, He Has Made A Suggestion To Himself. He Has Weakened His Power Of Accomplishing That Which Otherwise Would Have Been Accomplished.

Champions Come And Go, But To Be Legendary You Got To Have Heart, More Heart Than The Next Man, More Than Anyone In The World.

Old Age Is Just A Record Of One's Whole Life.

I Can Love Freedom And The Flesh And Blood Of My People Moreso Than I Do The Money.

There Are Billions Of People In The World, And Every One Of Them Is Special. No One Else In The World Is Like You.

Be Obedient To Your Superior, And Your Inferior Will Obey You.

I Can Remember A Couple Of Real Fights When I Ran. Because They Were Kinda Dangerous.

That All You Got, George?

How Many Push Ups Do You Do? I Don't Know. I Only Starts Counting When It Starts Hurting

When I Was A Kid I Got Mad Enough To Want To Kill Somebody But As You Travel The World And I'm Struggling With A Freedom Fight Against Nations, You Can't Get Enough Hate In You To Be Mad At One Man Just Because It's A Boxing Match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, Who Condemned My Islamic Religion And Didn't Want To Call Me Muhammad Ali And Said I Should've Gone To The Army And I Should Be In Jail.

I'll Tell You How I'd Like To Be Remembered: As A Black Man Who Won The Heavyweight Title - Who Has Humorous And Who Never Looked Down On Those Who Looked Up To Him - A Man Who Stood For Freedom, Justice And Equality - And I Wouldn't Even Mind If Folks Forgot How Pretty I Was.

My Toughest Fight Was With My First Wife.

In Ali Change Creation Faith Growth Hope Humor Life Living Muhammad Ali Transformation Wonder If They Can Make Penicillin Out Of Moldy Bread, They Can Sure Make Something Out Of You.

Impossible Is Not A Fact, It's An Opinion.

Fighting By Itself Doesn't Interest Me Anymore. I Want To Help People, The Black People And I Need Any Kind Of Media To Spread My Thought: God, Charity, Peace.

The Will Must Be Stronger Than The Skill.

I'm The Greatest Fighter In The Entire World, How Can I Be Afraid? I Love People And People Love Me.

Once The Choice Is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-guess Your Decisions

I Am The Astronaut Of Boxing. Joe Louis And Dempsey Were Just Jet Pilots. I'm In A World Of My Own.

Sonny Liston Is Nothing. The Man Can't Talk. The Man Can't Fight. The Man Needs Talking Lessons. The Man Needs Boxing Lessons. And Since He's Gonna Fight Me, He Needs Falling Lessons.

Fifty Years Old, 212 Fights, And I'm Still Pretty.

When You Can Whip Any Man In The World, You Never Know Peace.

I Wanted To Keep These Trunks As A Souvenir." "now Look At Them." "they Were Splattered With Blood.

Women Are Not Equal With Men, That's Sure. When The Woman Is In Danger She Always Looks To The Man For Help. We Are Superior By Nature. The Black Or White Woman Needn't Worry In Life Because The World Is Ruled By The White Man.

Black People All Are Fightin' You All For Freedom, Justice And Equality. One Believes That Intermarriage Is Gonna Solve It, And 200 Years From Now We All Will Be A Beautiful Cream Color. He Really Believes It. One Believe That Gittin' Some Rifles And Shootin' Up The Country Is Gonna Solve It, Another Believes That Education. One Day We'll Be The President. One Believe That We Gotta Git Into The White Man's Pockets And Get All The Money.

Even The Greatest Was Once A Beginner. Don't Be Afraid To Take That First Step.

I Don't Count My Sit-ups. I Only Start Counting When It Starts Hurting. That Is When I Start Counting, Because Then It Really Counts. That's What Makes You A Champion.

I Need To Get Everything Straight. I'm Not Involved In A Power Struggle Between Black And White.

Black And White

A Man Who Views The World The Same At Fifty As He Did At Twenty Has Wasted Thirty Years Of His Life.

I Was The First One In The Gym, And The Last One To Leave.

I Don't Consider Myself No Attractive Man. People Like Tom Jones And Elvis Presley - I'm Not Nothing Like That.

Rest But Never Quit. Even The Sun Has A Sinking Spell Each Evening. But It Always Rises The Next Morning. At Sunrise, Every Soul Is Born Again.

I Always Asked My Mother, I Said, 'momma, How Come Is Everything White?' I Said, 'why Is Jesus White With Blond Hair And Blue Eyes? Why Is The Lord's Supper All White Men? Angels Are White, The Pope, Mary, And Even The Angels.' I Said, 'mother, When We Die, Do We Go To Heaven?' She Said, 'naturally We Go To Heaven.' I Said, 'well, What Happened To All The Black Angels?'

Don't Ever Squeeze A Fighter's Hand, Man. You're Doing Good Just To Lay Your Eyes On Me

What I've Found Is That The Religion That Matters, The Real Religion Is Love.

They Say Actually Every Time I Enter The Ring, In A Way, I`m Going To The War. They Say To Me Daily, You Are A Prized Fighter, What`s The Difference? And I Like To Say To Those Critics Of The Press And The Others That There Is One Hell Of A Lot Of Difference In Fighting In A Ring And Going To War In Vietnam.

It Isn't The Mountains That Wear You Out; It's The Pebble In Your Shoe.

Boxing Champions

God Tries You In Certain, Certain Ways. Some People Are Rich, And They Believe In God. They Lose The Money, Things Get Hard, They Get Weak And Quit Going To Church. Quit Serving God Like They Did.

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 Tried To Get Into The Mind Of My Opponent And Psyche Him Out.

You Lose Nothing When Fighting For A Cause ... In My Mind The Losers Are Those Who Don't Have A Cause They Care About.

There Ain't No Such Thing As Black Muslims. That's How They Tried To Cut Off All My Brothers In The Rest Of The World And Divide Us In America And Make Other Muslims Think That We Are Not With Them.we Are All The Same. I Recognise Them And They Recognise Me. I'm Invited To All Of Their Homes All Over The World And I'm Invited To Muslim Countries.

America Don't Have No Future! America's Going To Be Destroyed! Allah's Going To Divinely Chastise America! Violence, Crimes, Earthquakes - There's Gonna Be All Kinds Of Trouble. America's Going To Pay For All Its Lynchings And Killings Of Slaves And What It's Done To Black People.

Love Is A Net That Catches Hearts Like A Fish

Trending Author

Category