June 3 Quotes

108 quotes in this collection

"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."

-- Muhammad Ali

"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."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I calculate that I'll be the champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over."

-- Muhammad Ali

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

-- Muhammad Ali

"What keeps me going is goals."

-- Muhammad Ali

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain."

-- Muhammad Ali

"There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win."

-- Muhammad Ali

"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

"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."

-- 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 everyday."

-- Muhammad Ali

"We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last."

-- Muhammad Ali

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

-- Muhammad Ali

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

-- Muhammad Ali

"I've wrestled with alligators. I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I'm not the greatest, I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."

-- Muhammad Ali

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

-- Muhammad Ali

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

-- Muhammad Ali

"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

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Just as religions do - they all contain truths."

-- Muhammad Ali

"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."

-- Muhammad Ali

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water."

-- Muhammad Ali
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