"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