Muhammad Ali Quotes

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Muhammad Ali
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Muhammad Ali

January 17 , 1942 – June 3 , 2016

Muhammad Ali was an American boxer, activist. Their words on leadership, courage and responsibility are still quoted by those looking for strength and direction.

107 quotes in this collection

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school."

-- Muhammad Ali

"But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."

-- Muhammad Ali

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."

-- Muhammad Ali

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

-- Muhammad Ali

"Bragging is when a person says something and can't do it. I do what I say."

-- Muhammad Ali

"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

"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."

-- Muhammad Ali

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."

-- Muhammad Ali

"It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."

-- Muhammad Ali

"They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare."

-- Muhammad Ali

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."

-- Muhammad Ali

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

-- 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

"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

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

-- 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

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Muhammad Ali was an American boxer, activist. Their words on leadership, courage and responsibility are still quoted by those looking for strength and direction.

One of Muhammad Ali's most widely shared quotes is: "What keeps me going is goals.".

On mindset, Muhammad Ali said: "If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.".

On boxing, Muhammad Ali said: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.".

Muhammad Ali's quotes endure because they turn ideas about Mindset, Boxing, Confidence, Greatness into clear, memorable language that is easy to relate to and share.

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